Latest Sports News Headlineshttp://www.charterhouse.org.ukCharterhouse school blogISFA Cup Quarter-Final<h3 class="MsoNormal">ISFA Cup Quarter-Final v Royal Russell </h3>
<h6 class="MsoNormal">Date: Wednesday 7 December</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Draw 1 - 1</h6>
<h6>Lost on penalties after extra time 3 - 1</h6>
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<p>ISFA, like some sort of petty thief, stole our dreams and broke our hearts in the darkness of a penalty shoot out. As Royal Russell rolled in their winning penalty and delirium descended on the home side, Charterhouse slumped to the ground, victims of a second penalty shoot-out exit in three years. On the sidelines and pitch, Desolation spat, Despair brayed and Depression foamed. We’re out. Our relationship with the ISFA cup is like the experience of a first love. We fell in love too quick; it was intense and emotional; and the finale was like being hit by a ton of bricks in the gut, especially considering the haste with which she transferred her affection elsewhere. I thought we had something special! ‘Tell me you love me’ crooned Chris Martin, ‘if you don’t then lie. Oh lie to me.’ </p>
<p>I tell you what though, if this was first love, then in future years ISFA is going to look back on our failed relationship with genuine fondness and, I would venture, more than a tinge of regret. We were absolutely magnificent. Relentlessly glorious. Gutsy, ballsy, classy and full of quality. Every man jack was a hero. Our back four were resolute and put up the sort of line not seen since Andre Maginot came up with a plan to hold back the Germans, complete with underground canteens and a railway. And frankly even if Royal Russell had come at us through Belgium or the Ardennes, I’m still confident we’d have resisted. Well okay we weren’t that good because we did concede a really soft goal from a long throw. But other than that we showed the sort of strength normally associated with Brian Shaw or Zydrunas Savickas, depending on the year that is. In midfield we were tenacious and tigerish, Margarson and Raber patrolling like East German border checkpoint guards, vigilantly demanding to see papers and just holding everything up in a haze of bureaucratic red tape. In front, players’ player Orlando Allen was a constant threat, while Hammond and the two Platts boys menaced the Royal Russell back four, creating numerous chances and stalking around like crazed Pamplona bulls looking for tourists to gore. </p>
<p>Jamie Platts secured the equaliser with a headed goal from an Orlando cross and from that point Tension swept off the bedsheets, dressed herself in a ravishing outfit and started to flit around, slowly at first, just making small talk and sipping at a cocktail, but then more obviously, so that soon she was dominating proceedings and nobody could take their eyes off her. The second half crept on, chances coming and going, mistakes potentially threatening to be more and more costly. Challenges became tastier; bookings were brandished. Heads were hot; tempers were bubbling. In the final minutes, Charterhouse had a glorious opportunity, but the Royal Russell keeper saved with Raber clean through. On it went into extra time, with chances for both sides, by which point Tension was stretched out on a chaise longue, casually picking at olives and grapes and raising an eyebrow in a quizzical, yet strangely alluring manner. And so penalties. Penalties. The old twelve yard test of nerve and skill. After four penalties it was 0-0. After nine penalties it was 3-1 and Charterhouse were down on bloodied knee, scanning the battlefield for surviving compatriots with whom to commiserate, searching for solace, craving consolation. </p>
<p>So difficult to take, especially after Ardingly two years ago. Once again, just when we were starting to dream that the cup was within our grasp, it was cruelly snatched away. Charterhouse were very much like Cedric Diggory in that regard, though without the horcrux and inevitable death at the hands of the Avada Kedavra curse of course. The relationship is over; she’s gone. It’s going to be tough for a while. Buy a tub of ice cream, call up your mates and tell them you’re back on the social scene and would they mind taking you back? And when we’re out in public we’ll bad mouth the whole thing and claim we never wanted it anyway, even though we’ll be dying inside. As Justin Bieber put it: </p>
<p>‘This is personal, this is for me and you. And I want you to know that I still love you. I know the seasons may change. And sometimes love goes from sunshine to rain … And you know I don’t wanna lose that. I still believe in us’. </p>
<p>She’ll call us again next year when she’s bored. And we’ll pick up the phone once more and start chatting and laughing about the old times. And after that who knows? </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Quarter-Finalhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Quarter-FinalThu, 08 Dec 2016 13:31:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Monday 28 November to Sunday 4 December</i></p>
<h3>Fencing </h3>
<p>On Saturday 3 December the 1st Team defeated Hampton School 15 - 1.</p>
<h3>Fives </h3>
<p>The U18A Girls won the match against Holyport College on Thursday 1 December.</p>
<h3>Football</h3>
<p>The girls' 1st XI football team enjoyed their third consecutive win with a 5 - 2 victory at home against Sevenoaks, on Tuesday 29 November.</p>
<p>Alex Ford (Year 11) was recently selected for the ISFA South U16 football squad.</p>
<h3>Raquets</h3>
<p>The pairs U15 and 16 teams enjoyed wins against Radley and Haileybury at home on Tuesday 29 November and Thursday 1 December.</p>
<h3>Rowing</h3>
<p>Three crews entered for the 5km time trial at Teddington on Saturday 3 December. The Coxless Quad, came third in their category, Yaro Chichvarkin covered the course in 21mins 11secs which would have placed him fourth in the adult category whilst Cosima Graef and Ilektra Georgouli completed their first competitive outing in a Double Scull.</p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>On Thursday 1 December the U18 Boys played away at Bede's School in the National Cup winning 4 - 1, while there were also wins for the U18 Girls and U14 Boys away at Christ's Hospital 2 - 1.</p>
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<p><em>Relays</em></p>
<p>The Muris Trophy was won by Daviesites as overall winners.</p>
<p><em>Shooting </em></p>
<p>The winning House was Verites who were crowned as overall champions.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-14http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-14Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:35:00 +00001st X1 v Highgate<h3>1st X1 v Highgate School</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 3 December</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 6 - 4</h6>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">Ten goals on Big Ground. More goals than a target-setting session with the Fourths. It was the sort of scoreline that normally only occurs when two groups turn up in the local park, throw a couple of jumpers down and play until dark. Charterhouse have now scored 69 goals in 20 games this term. Rip up your season ticket, forget about picking up those wall plugs from the hardware store, pack away the golf clubs and park the domestic admin. Why would you want to be anywhere else? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">As the last home game drew to a close, with Charterhouse finally having broken Highgate’s resistance, we had the briefest of moments of the most glorious happiness. The sun had dipped behind the magnificent Victorian bell tower and the cold had penetrated every last layer of protection, but our hearts were warm and our spirits soared as Charterhouse saw out their fourth win in a row on the magnificent stage of Big Ground. Go shopping in the morning, catch up on Match of the Day in the evening, put off your weekend jog until Sunday. Why on earth would you want to be anywhere else? It’s more than entertainment. It’s gut-wrenching tension, uncontrolled rage and giddying highs, interspersed with the odd moment of high class comedy. The home side sped into a 3 - 0 lead (with goals from Raber or, more likely, an own goal, Jamie Platts and Orlando Allen) and looked highly comfortable, in a manner totally unbefitting of everything that’s gone before. And sure enough before long it was 4 - 4 (Garrard notching the home side’s fourth). Which is much more like it. Along the way Charterhouse contrived to miss their usual glut of chances, while conceding some of the more basic goals you’ll ever see. And then, with a flourish, two more goals for the home side (Ollie Platts and the returning Max Hitchins) made the score 6 - 4. It was very much like early twentieth century British politics. Charterhouse had started like the New Liberals, with a flood of social reforms and making a real noise in the face of the opposition, even taking on the Lords! They then lost all momentum and drive, like the interwar years, where nobody really did anything and where the age of Baldwin and Chamberlain coincided with unspectacular domestic policies and, of course, appeasement. And then they rallied again, like Attlee’s ‘New Jerusalem’ government, frantically and energetically legislating on the great social and economic questions of the day and leaving the opposition in their wake. Well for a bit anyway. Fortunately the final whistle came before the Conservatives could win the 1951 election and then dominate politics for the next 13 years, because that wouldn’t really fit the analogy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">There is one game left in Oration Quarter. It’s a cup game. The ISFA Cup. And it’s away at Royal Russell school. On a Wednesday. Call up the boss with a croaky voice, cancel pilates and set the box to record ‘Bargain Hunt’ and the ‘Doctor Blake Mysteries’. Why, in the name of Thomas Sutton, would you rather be anywhere else? </span></p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-X1-v-Highgate-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-X1-v-Highgate-SchoolMon, 05 Dec 2016 10:58:00 +0000Surrey Cup and Plate Finals <div> </div>
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<p>On Saturday 19 November, Charterhouse hosted the Under 11 Surrey Prep Schools’ Football Cup and Plate Finals on Big Ground. After 27 schools had entered the competition, it was done to just 4 teams who competed in the two respective finals.</p>
<p>In the main final, congratulations go to Downsend who were crowned 2016 Champions after a very high quality game against Royal Russell. Both teams battled hard throughout the match and with Downsend leading 1 - 0 at half time there was still all to play for. Near misses at each end could have changed the game, but a goal for Royal Russell really made the final part of the match very exciting! Downsend scored again on the break to put themselves back on top and although Royal Russell piled on the pressure, a break-away goal for Downsend decided the result and the game finished 3 - 1.</p>
In the plate final, Danes Hill were the winners for the second year running. They faced a strong KCS, Wimbledon side in a game that was full of end to end action. The score was 1 - 1 at half time and the second half proved to be as exciting as the first. After goals from both sides made it 3 - 3, extra time looked to be the only way to settle the two teams. With only a few minutes remaining, Danes Hill took the lead and then closed the game out with another goal to win 5 - 3 at the final whistle. David Howells, Director of Football, presented the medals and trophies to each of the teams, whilst Director of Sport, Nick Beasant commented “it was a pleasure to be able to host these finals for the first time and to have such a high quality display of football from all four competing schools. Congratulations to all those players and staff involved in what was an excellent afternoon of sport”.
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<p>In early November, Charterhouse was most fortunate to host Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, Jaguar Land Rover and the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) for one day football and cultural visit. </p>
<p>This 12 month programme, run in conjunction with Jaguar Land Rover and the CSCLF in China, delivers a series of in-market player/coach education programmes aligned to a UK residential event. As part of this trip the delegates visited the School to train and play football and share in a cultural experience with pupils from Charterhouse. </p>
<p>Forty under 13 and under 14 boys from across China enjoyed this UK intensive one-week football training course at Tottenham's world-class training centre. During the trip, the children also attended the international football match between rivals England and Scotland at Wembley. </p>
<p>The Jaguar Land Rover and Tottenham Hotspur partnership is significant because it fuses two celebrated British icons that are revered for doing things in 'the right way' - with style, grace and success. While both can recall glorious pasts, it is the impact they are making in the present that is helping them to stand out: Tottenham Hotspur is taking its place in this season's UEFA Champions League and Jaguar Land Rover is on course to achieve a record number of global sales in 2016, supported by its China market performance.</p>
<p>During their Charterhouse visit, the boys learnt about British history, culture and values and as well the rich heritage of the School. The delegation were welcomed by the Headmaster and undertook a coaching masterclass with Charterhouse Director of Football, Nick Beasant, and former Tottenham great David Howells. In the afternoon a CSCLF select XI took on their Charterhouse U14 counterparts and it was the visitors who triumphed in a pulsating and end to end match 2 - 1.</p>
<p>The day concluded with a cultural exchange and a passing of gifts between 40 Charterhouse Year 8 pupils and their Chinese visitors. </p>
<p>In short, this was a thrilling experience for all involved with Nick Beasant commenting "we are proud of our association with Tottenham Hotspur and this visit highlights what excellent opportunities such a partnership can offer".</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/One-Day-of-Football-Culturehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/One-Day-of-Football-CultureMon, 28 Nov 2016 11:16:00 +00001st XI Football Matches<h3>1st XI v Bede's School</h3>
<h6>Date: Tuesday 22 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 3 - 2</h6>
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<h6>Date: Thursday 24 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 4 - 0</h6>
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<h3>1st XI v Ardingly College</h3>
<h6>Date: Saturday 26 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 5 - 2</h6>
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<p>‘You’re once. Twice. Three times a lady’ crooned the legendary Lionel Ritchie ‘And I love you’. Well we love the Charterhouse 1st XI at the minute. Three wins in a week; three wins in five days to be precise. And, though of course colours are absolutely gender neutral, the final victory was achieved in the prettiest pink strips you’ll ever see. And it was achieved with a new record. Charterhouse, as we all know, was in the vanguard of the development of the game of football. The old boys have been playing football since the 1860s, at a time when one third of British men had the vote, when Disraeli and Gladstone were waiting their turn to bestride the stage of Victorian politics and when many a common man and woman were wondering aloud about the growing but seemingly crazy festive German concept of installing and fussing over a tree in the house, adorning it with tinsel and various bizarre baubles and caring for it with diligence and genuine concern, before wantonly chucking it out the back to slowly decay. In all that time, in all that cacophony of historical happenings, with the rise and fall of empires and amid the great discoveries, enterprises and achievements, there has never been a greater concentration of hair bands, in one team, on one football pitch than on Big Ground on Saturday. Fact. And though of course hair bands are absolutely gender neutral, this combination of pink strips and assortment of hair accessories did lead the visiting players to make the odd observation to the contrary. Dispense with your stereotypes, overthrow your inhibitions and just go out and there and do it sister! </p>
<p>Charterhouse started the week with a tough league match against Bede’s, who haven’t been beaten in five years. They finished the week with a tough league match against Ardingly, who enjoy a similar run of success against the boys from C'house. But let the clocks be reset, dust off your almanacs and look elsewhere for a losing streak. The demons have been exorcised. ‘This house’ to quote Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, ‘is clean’. And in between was a fine win against a tough Marlborough side! Charterhouse were like the Prussian army in the <em>Seven Years War</em> this week. Shifting forces to cover three fronts in short time periods, against potentially massive foes, Charterhouse lost a few men along the way (though obviously not to eighteenth-century-battlefield-style deaths, but rather a bit of a sore throat and a slightly tight hamstring) but they stood tall and brave and emerged all the stronger for the experience. And Margarson was probably the closest to playing the Frederick the Great character, his little feet dancing in tight areas, manoeuvring himself out of tight spots and providing reassurance and leadership. Imagine picking him in the 3rd XI last season! Those idiots running the football programme! But there were heroes all over the park. From Big Ground to Pitch O and back to Big Ground Charterhouse scored 12 goals and conceded 4, but they were tough games and none more so than Ardingly, a game in which Charterhouse displayed magnificent resolve and character before Orlando Allen put us all out of our misery by dinking his way into the opposition box and scoring the goal that secured victory in the gathering gloom. It was wonderful. It was glorious. And, as Darkness laid down his heavy cloak it was difficult to withhold gratitude for the home side’s choice of kit. It would have been very difficult to see anything otherwise. ‘Why would anyone choose blue over pink?’ mused the mercurial Kanye West, ‘Pink is obviously a better colour’. He’s probably right. Charterhouse have two matches left. First up another tough fixture against Highgate next Saturday. And then it’s the quarter finals of the ISFA cup. Can’t wait! </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-Football-Matcheshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-Football-MatchesMon, 28 Nov 2016 10:26:00 +00001st XI v Shrewsbury<h3>1st XI v Shrewsbury School</h3>
<h6>On: Friday 18 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Lost 4 - 3</h6>
<p>There's been a lot of talk about building walls recently, but when King Offa of Mercia began construction of his dyke in the eighth century, it formed one of the great fortifications of contemporary times, standing, at least according to some, as a defensive frontier against the Welsh and running along the modern day border, only a short distance from Shrewsbury School. How Charterhouse could benefit from the example of the great Anglo-Saxon monarch. Oh to have a defensive frontier, to be able to repel invaders, to thwart aggressors, to frustrate, obviate, stymie or forestall. To go on and construct a great kingdom, which extended sovereignty over most of the south of England and which is foreshadowed only by the reign of Alfred the Great in its dominance of England. The trouble with this Charterhouse side is that they are relentless aggressors, threatening on all fronts, but leaving, at all times, the stable door unlocked. Eventually some highwayman is going to sneak in and walk off with the horse. Or horses. And all the straw.</p>
<p>After a mighty journey across the lands formerly under Offa's hegemony, Charterhouse dusted themselves off and asked absolute wonders of their digestive systems after an extraordinary full English at Warwick services, followed not two hours later by soup and pasta (or alternatively a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and fish and chips dependent on individual players). Perhaps this, or the journey, or the radical back three, or the cold, or even maybe the distraction that today is 'National Apple Cider Day' in the USA, might explain the calamitous start which saw Shrewsbury pile in three goals, leaving Charterhouse staring down the barrel of a heavy defeat. But the away side rallied and by half time, it should really have been 3 - 3, Allen blasting over the bar in the final minute of the half and spurning the chance to equalise, goals from Hammond and Gilbey having given the away side a sniff. </p>
<p>Into the second half and the game looked over when a series of poor decisions and yet more sloppiness resulted in Shrewsbury bagging a fourth. But then Garrard made it 4 - 3 and the game was afoot again. Both sides began to tire as the game closed out, with chances at both ends in a game that might have ended 9 - 9. But 4 - 3 it was and Charterhouse lose again on the road. Not that we don't lose at home as well of course. </p>
<p>This was yet another spirited comeback in the manner of the Eton game, both games seeing the away side present the home side with a three goal cushion before starting to play. You might say we like to lull sides into a false sense of security. But we tend to lull teams into absolute security. Which isn't really the point. And so another fixture plays out in the long calendar of contests between these great schools. As we pass Warwick services for the second time in six hours it's tempting to stop in for more food. Maybe we'll leave it to Beaconsfield. Oh hang on, the driver wants a toilet stop. Oh go on then. We'll find room for something. </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Shrewsbury-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Shrewsbury-1Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:12:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Monday 7 to Sunday 13 November</i></p>
<h3>Badminton</h3>
<p>Charterhouse U18 A defeated Wellington College on Saturday 12 November at home 10 - 6.</p>
<h3>Basketball</h3>
<p>In the Junior House basketball, with all 11 Houses from the Under School taking part, Hodgsonites were crowned champions beating Bodeites in the final 28 - 13. </p>
<h3>Cross Country</h3>
<p>The School cross country squad competed both at Lancing College on Saturday 12 and in the Haskell Trophy Mixed-U18 A on Wednesday 9 November. </p>
<h3>Football</h3>
<p>In football, there were wins for the 5th XI and U14 Cs and a draw for the 4th XI on the 12 November against Hampton.</p>
<p>On Wednesday 9 November, Charterhouse played host to 40 visiting Chinese footballers from the Soong Ching Ling Foundation in conjunction with Tottenham Hotspur and Jaguar Landrover. It was an excellent cultural exchange and days worth of activities which culminated in a splendid exhibition match on Big Ground versus our U14 As, where China won in a hard fought match, 2 - 1. </p>
<h3>Golf </h3>
<p>The Golf team won 2 - 1 defeating Reed’s School on 8 November. </p>
<h3>Lacrosse</h3>
<p>The Lacrosse team won 7 - 5 at St Catherine's School on Tuesday 8 November. </p>
<h3>Raquets</h3>
<p>At Eton on 10 November the first pair, of Captain John Jillings and Max Vallance, triumphed in a very high quality match against a strong Eton pair. The Year 9 Pair of Marcus Rawlings and James Taylor won their third match in successive weeks. They have now beaten Clifton College, Winchester and most recently Eton.</p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>On 10 November the U14s enjoyed a comprehensive victory over Harrow. Charterhouse number one, Seb Smith, beat the Harrow number one 3 - 0.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-13http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-13Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:50:00 +0000A Win Against Tonbridge<div>
<h3>1st XI v Tonbridge </h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 15 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 5 - 1</h6>
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<div>Quarter Finals. Quarter Finals! The last eight! Charterhouse smashed through to the next round with a resounding victory away at Tonbridge and again the hero was the coiffured Allen, slotting in four goals and leading the away side to a famous victory. After a tough first half in which Charterhouse were staggeringly wasteful with their chances, there were many observers who feared that it might be 'one of those days'. It was rather like Brandenburg-Prussia's attempts at expelling the Swedes and gaining West Pomerania. Try as they might and close as they got, they were always foiled at the last. But then, at last, the breakthrough. Jamie Platts sauntered down the left and crossed for Allen to nod in his first. And Stettin was finally in Prussian hands! Well for a bit. With a nagging feeling of deja vu we watched in horror as Tonbridge found a reply from a corner. From all of three yards. Right in the middle of the goal. Ah. </div>
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<div>And so the game started all over again. Once again Allen, acting like some sort of Prussian field marshal, seized the initiative, announcing, like King Leonidas, to all and sundry: 'Gentlemen. This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! Remember this day men, for it will be yours for all time!' And with that he gathered his retinue about him, swept his cloak around his shoulders and strode into the opposition box to first demand, and then receive, a second goal for the visiting team. And soon it was three. And it was Allen again, this time with one of the goals of the tournament. You could go the breadth of the kingdom, from Taunton to Newcastle and you'd never see a finer goal. Andrade-Brown, who should never have played rugby last year, fired an absolute cannon of a pass across the diagonal of the pitch, whereupon Allen controlled the ball on his knee, swivelled and then volleyed the ball into the goal with staggering and unflustered nonchalance. There was just time for Jamie Platts to knock into an empty net after unselfish work from the magnificent Hammond. Oh and for Allen to score. Again. </div>
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<div>And so in the end it was an outstanding victory in the backyard of a great rival. And we now await the draw for the last eight with great excitement. With baited and rushed breaths. Lovely to be quarter finalists. But it's just a service station on a long motorway. We hope to pick up an assortment of nuts and maybe some fresh mango and get back on the road. We've a destination in mind and there's still a long drive ahead. Fire up the speakers and think carefully about the 80s playlist. As Miley Cyrus said 'I can almost see it. <span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">That dream I'm dreaming'. Got to be in it to win it. And we're in it!! Bring on the draw. </span></div>
<p> </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-Threehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-ThreeWed, 16 Nov 2016 09:33:00 +00001st XI v Repton <style type="text/css">p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}
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<h6>On: Tuesday 8 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Lost 3 - 6</h6>
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<p>There were probably more than a few observers of the scoreline of this game who probably thought there’d been a particularly tedious game of rugby taking place on Big Ground. But losing 3 - 6 in a rugby match suggests that both sides had an effective defence. And that charge certainly could not be laid at the door of a Charterhouse side, who are currently shipping goals as if they were the port of Rotterdam. This was a strange game in which parity ensued for 75 minutes, but which saw a staggering 5 - 6 minutes of utter madcap scheming, eccentric posturing and a sort of mass laying down of arms, during which time Repton scored four goals, hit the bar and struck the post. In truth it could have been much worse. But then, the game settled back into a good contest again and it was like nothing had ever happened. It was like watching (or reading if you’re the clever sort) the <i>Man in the High Castle</i>, with the Nazis and Japanese running the United States and thinking this is odd, before realising that they must somehow have won the war but no-one bothered to say anything.</p>
<p>If only there had been some sort of warning that Charterhouse were defensively frail from crosses, corners, set pieces and general play. I suppose there’s that oft-quoted historiographical question about history repeating itself and historians take great pleasure tying themselves in knots about the whole thing. But if any of them had come to watch the Charterhouse 1st XI over the last three games they’d be declaring the debate over and heading off for some snuff and a good chat about the optimum length for a beard, all the while debating in the style of MRG, whether it is ever acceptable to wear a cardigan over a cardigan. Then there’s that whole debate about learning from history, lest we repeat the mistakes of our forebears etc. etc. Yes. Yes. That seems like a good question to ponder. I wish I could grow a beard.
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<p>Thus ends a three game streak since half term, in which Charterhouse have scored 6 goals and conceded 10, losing two and securing one draw. We’re like Keegan’s entertainers. But without the entertainment. And what we wouldn’t give for a Philippe Albert or Darren Peacock. Or Brian Kilcline! Hampton are next before the ISFA Cup looms. George Santayana famously wrote that ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. Sounds about right.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Reptonhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-ReptonMon, 14 Nov 2016 10:13:00 +00001st XI v Ibstock Place and Eton<h3>Charterhouse 1st XI v Ibstock Place</h3>
<h6>On: Thursday 3 November 2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Drew 1 - 1</h6>
<h3>Charterhouse 1st XI v Eton College</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 5 November 2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Lost 3 - 2</h6>
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<p>Charterhouse kicked off the second half of the Oration Quarter season with two matches versus Ibstock Place and Eton. And, not to spoil the surprise or anything, they drew and lost respectively. And OMG it was bare dred. Where to begin? Two approaches I suppose. We could either go chronologically, or look for themes. And as any GCSE or Pre-U pupil knows, the latter is much more preferable to the former. So I suppose we’d better do that. You know, as educators and all that. </p>
<p>So, factor one: defending. Charterhouse seem to have developed an unerring habit of leaving strikers unmarked in the box. Ibstock’s goal was a sweeping finish from 6 yards, the Ibstock striker striding into acres of open space right in the middle of the fun zone, plumping up the couch cushions, ordering in pizza and stretching out to watch some smutty film on Channel 5. Eton’s goals were invariably headers, invariably corners and invariably worthy of the sort of curses more typical of swashbuckling British soldiers nicking the asiento from frustrated Spaniards. Both games saw the away side trail, and trail heavily in the case of the Eton match. Satyagraha isn’t great on a football pitch. Unless you have a Ghandi. And, with no disrespect to the players in the 1st XI, no one looks likely to organise a Salt March any time soon. What we need are Spartans. Actually we could do with Defenders, like Doctor Strange, Hulk, Namor and Silver Surfer, possibly assisted by Jessica Jones. There’s no way a line up like that would have conceded 21 goals in 12 games. </p>
<p>Factor two: attacking. We’ve been guilty of lacking a bit of a clinical edge of late. We had pressure and chances against Ibstock and Eton, while Hawkings really is one of the great set piece takers of our times. Time after time the ball is flown in with the sort of accuracy normally associated with Phil Taylor, but we don’t score nearly enough goals from such a threat. We got two scrappy goals against Eton, but we had some great chances too. But maybe the defending puts too much pressure on the attackers. Or maybe the attacking puts too much pressure on the defenders. Or maybe we’ve just found ourselves in some chicken-and-egg-style weird philosophical conundrum and we’re all wondering whether a goal scored really was a goal scored if there was no-one there to see it and whether we truly have the capacity to express free will and, if indeed we do, why don’t we freely will some more goals into the net or keep a few out at the other end?</p>
<p>Factor three: character. So okay we’re not at our best at the minute. But there’s some heart in this side. They scrapped out a result at Ibstock, courtesy of a goal from Orlando Allen, that was reminiscent of Steven Gerrard’s strike in the cup final against West Ham all those years ago. At least that’s how it looked from the golf course, where we found ourselves, having been forced to scale barbed wire fences in order to gain access and retrieve our balls. It was like breaking through the DMZ on the 38th parallel. Against Eton, 0 - 3 at half time and facing a mauling, it was heart-swelling to watch the away side battle, scrap and almost get a result, with a fantastic Ollie Platts cross in the last minute narrowly avoiding Dovell’s despairing efforts to secure a famous equaliser. To finish the game 2 - 3 and properly breathing down the necks of the hosts was wonderful testament to the character of this squad.</p>
<p>So, as we turn our attention to a travelling Repton side who arrive at Charterhouse with strength and pedigree, we know we’re a tough bunch, but, as I would argue this incredibly profound analysis has demonstrated, it turns out that we need to be better at keeping the ball out of our own net and better at putting it in someone else’s. Well there’s no point reinventing the wheel I suppose. </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Ibstock-Place-and-Etonhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Ibstock-Place-and-EtonTue, 08 Nov 2016 09:31:00 +0000Training Starts for Les Deux Alpes<div>Thursday 3 November saw the start of the winter skiing season at Charterhouse, with eleven pupils embarking on slalom training at Aldershot Ski Centre for the first time. They are part of a fourteen-strong team who will be competing in the in <i>Les Deux Alpes</i> in December. Whilst all pupils involved are strong skiers on snow, for many it was the first time on a dry slope, which took some getting used to. They are also starting to get to grips with the most challenging course they will be facing in December – the Slalom – which is requires a whole different style of skiing. In December they will also be facing the Giant Slalom and the very exciting Parallel Slalom team event on the glacier at <i>Les Deux Alpes</i>, training will continue into the winter.</div>
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<p><b>Photograph:</b> <i>Max Fairfull (Year 9)</i></p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Training-Starts-for-Les-Deux-Alpeshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Training-Starts-for-Les-Deux-AlpesThu, 03 Nov 2016 11:44:00 +0000ISFA Cup Round Two<h3>ISFA Cup Round Two</h3>
<h6>Merchant Taylors', Crosby</h6>
<h6>On: Tuesday, 11 October</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 5 - 3</h6>
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<p>After a brisk evening stroll in Aintree (to and from the magnificent Aintree Tandoori) and a competitive morning training session at Liverpool's Academy, Charterhouse deported themselves to Crosby. And they got there by train. And taxi. And after cacophonous preparations in the changing rooms, they emerged, blinking in the Lancashire sun, peering over the West Lancashire golf club towards the distant Irish Sea. They mused as a murmuration of starlings exalted themselves in the north-western skies and they pondered awhile as a number of sleepy Merseyrail services deposited their fare in the Hall Road station and set off for Southport and Liverpool respectively. An irate wind occasionally threatened to spit bloody thunder and, off to the East, the Lancashire plains rolled and murmured. But this is mere backdrop; nothing more than context; the whim of fancy; the protestations of irrelevance. On the pitch, Charterhouse were called upon to be resilient, especially as the home side were given a boost after a mighty swing of the right boot sent an arrow past the despairing Barlow and Merchant Taylors' took an early lead. But Charterhouse buckled themselves in, buckled down and - in the interest of consistency - refused to buckle. They thereupon stood firm, remaining steadfast and unflustered and working their way back into the contest. It was rather like Peter the Great after the first battle of Narva, Merchant Taylors' very much looking down the road to Moscow but failing to press home their advantage, diverting themselves in the internal machinations of the Polish hereditary monarchy. And so Charterhouse - like Peter - rebuilt, with some subtlety at first, but slowly, tentatively, and almost apologetically, before the hero of the day, Orlando Allen, uttered his first lines on the stage. At first a scuffed shot, which squirmed underneath the diving Merchant Taylors' keeper to draw Charterhouse level. Then a real beauty. A cross from the left volleyed with the sort of precision and finesse usually associated with an Audi advert. And Charterhouse were ahead, nosing in front like a French Filly in her prime. And still the trains continued to plod through as the starlings teased the wind and the sky began to grow wearisome. But suddenly parity emerged, and we wondered again whether cruel fate was due to visit upon our house. Half time. 2 - 2.</p>
<p>But this Charterhouse side have a backbone longer than a Brontosaurus and they weren't done. And before long Jojo Hammond - who spent a considerable portion of the afternoon engaged in ideological discussions with his opposite number over various accepted social niceties - had given Charterhouse the lead. And then Garrard made it four, with a glancing header. And then there was Allen, stomping around and running the show like a genuinely mercurial theatre impresario, and scoring a fine goal to top off a memorable hat-trick. Ah. Breathing space. Well nearly. First there was the story of the left back, the centre back and the other centre back, all of whom failed to clear their lines, resulting in a free run on goal for the Merchant Taylors' centre forward. Then there was the story of the questionable Garrard tackle. Which actually wasn't that questionable given that it resulted in an utterly stonewall penalty. And finally there was the unfortunate Barlow own goal, the ball hitting the post but rebounding off the goalkeeper's legs and in to the goal. </p>
<p>And so the match finished 5 - 3 to the visitors. Charterhouse progress. Charterhouse endure. And as we wind our way back to Godalming, we look forward to the draw for Round Three on Thursday evening. Our relationship with the cup seems firm. But the ISFA cup is canny. At once friendly and dismissive. She's a tempestuous and fickle companion and she hates being taken for granted. So we'll have to work hard and find an edge, otherwise we'll be tossed aside in favour of a rival. It's the chase that drives us onward and the constant tension of elimination that tickles our heart and wrenches our guts. Or it could be the curry. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-Twohttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-TwoWed, 12 Oct 2016 09:38:00 +0000ISFA Seven-a-Side Tournament<h3>ISFA U18 Seven-a-Side Tournament</h3>
<h6>On: Sunday, 9 October 2016 </h6>
<h6>Venue: Home </h6>
<h6>Result: Plate winner </h6>
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<p>Charterhouse is celebrating as its talented girls’ football squad ran out as plate winners at this year’s ISFA U18 Girls National Seven-a-Side Tournament.</p>
<p>A total of 19 teams contested this year’s competition which was hosted by Charterhouse. Glorious sun greeted the start of the competition with the nineteen schools split into four groups with the top two progressing to the cup competition, and schools finishing third and fourth progressing through to the plate competition. </p>
<p>The plate knockout matches were exciting affairs as Charterhouse, Westminster and King Edward’s Witley battled their way through to the semi-finals defeating Wellington, St Swithun’s and City of London respectively, where they were joined by St Clare’s who edged past Herberdasher’s Monmouth on penalties.</p>
<p>In the semi-finals King Edward’s Witley defeated St Clare’s 2 - 0, whilst Charterhouse overcame Westminster on penalties to reach the plate final after a tense semi-final that saw some excellent football but neither side being able to grab the vital goal. </p>
<p>The final was also a very nervy affair with both teams giving everything they had in order to find the all important goal that would see them victorious. However, neither side were able to score in normal time or in a tense period of extra time. And so, again to penalties, and it was Charterhouse who eventually claimed the plate competition as they held their nerve from spot to defeat King Edward’s.</p>
<p>It was a fantastic achievement for the entire Charterhouse squad and coach Mr Wyciechowski. Their skill and determination were both suitably rewarded by becoming National Plate Champions. </p>
<p>A huge thank you to all the referees who did an excellent job, and all competing schools for supporting the event with an excellent turn out demonstrating the continued growth of girls’ football.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Seven-a-Side-Tournamenthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Seven-a-Side-TournamentTue, 11 Oct 2016 09:57:00 +00001st XI v Winchester<h3>1st XI v Winchester</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday, 8 October </h6>
<h6>Venue: Home </h6>
<h6>Result: Draw 1 - 1</h6>
<p>Last gasp. Dying embers. Final breaths. Raging uncertainty. Face saving escapism. Not since the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg and the accession of the hapless and starstruck Tsar Peter III has there been such a reversal of last minute fortunes. Forget Stan Collymore, tell Michael Owen to consign the Manchester derby to historical irrelevance and message Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and tell him to pipe down about scoring that winner in the European Cup. What I'm getting at, in the usual self-indulgent and unnecessarily irritating fashion, is that Jojo Hammond's last minute equaliser against Winchester was simply close, with the possible exception of Dwight Gayle's goal against Norwich the other week, to being one of the great moments in sporting (and for that matter historical) history. </p>
<p>Until that point Charterhouse were labouring along, having conceded, and were trailing. Increasingly frantic efforts at finding an equaliser had foundered upon heroic Winchester resistance with the visiting school fashioning chances of their own and fully deserving their lead. It looked bleak, like a stormy winter's evening in a north east finishing town. And then two fouls resulted in Charterhouse having a free kick deep into stoppage time. And when I say deep, I'm thinking of East 17 crooning 'deep baby. Deep deep down' and Adele 'rolling in the deep' and trying (but failing) to crowbar Take That's 'how deep is your love?' in somewhere. But blimey it was deep. Now then. Would Hammond deliver? Front row Pre-U historian and wearer of those appalling magenta loafers, this was a test of the highest character. BOOM!!! 1 - 1. What a strike son! Thump. Pick that one out. And before the Winchester keeper did, the final whistle had gone. Not since the opening of the UK's first Ikea in Warrington in 1987 has there been so much excitement about a draw. It might just spark some much needed momentum. A key week lies ahead. Virgin Trains await for the trip north, as Merchant Taylors', Crosby provide the opposition in round two of the ISFA cup. Don't worry though. We've booked seats.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Winchesterhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-WinchesterMon, 10 Oct 2016 09:08:00 +00001st XI v Bradfield <h3>1st XI v Bradfield</h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday, 4 October </h6>
<h6>Venue: Home </h6>
<h6>Result: Lost 0 - 3 </h6>
<p>'Bradfield! Bradfield! That cloud in the west, that coming storm, the minister of God’s retribution upon cruel and inveterate and half-atoned injustice!'</p>
<p>If ever there were a time to misquote Gladstone it's now. For, once again, our best laid plans were foiled by that troublesome western outpost and what looked like eminently sensible policies became embroiled in economic, social and political turmoil. For 50 minutes this was a tight affair, both sides parrying, twisting, thumbing and jousting. But then Bradfield broke through and Charterhouse rather broke down. Thereafter it was 3 - 0 and extremely comfortable with Bradfield stretched out on sun loungers, ordering cocktails and eyeing up dinner options.</p>
<p>But it wasn't as if Charterhouse didn't enjoy possession. It wasn't as if they failed to create chances. It wasn't as if they didn't fashion wonderful opportunities. But it wasn't quite right, wasn't coldly clinical, wasn't... well just wasn't. Frustrating. Still. A learning experience. A bad game against a good team.</p>
<p>In the words of Richard Milhous Nixon, one time President and all round sage:</p>
<p>'You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.'</p>
<p>Or, I suppose, stack the odds against losing by committing an extraordinary federal crime before the most outrageous mendacity in the face of ever-insurmountable evidence.</p>
<p>I think we'll keep it simple and just go with something like 'take one game at a time'. Winchester on Big Ground in the league on Saturday. The next test.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Bradfieldhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-BradfieldFri, 07 Oct 2016 14:58:00 +00001st XI v Latymer Upper School<h3>1st XI v Latymer Upper School</h3>
<h6>On: Thursday, 29 September </h6>
<h6>Venue: Home </h6>
<h6>Result: Won 6 - 2</h6>
<p>Round One navigated. But I'm not entirely sure how. And as a fiendishly attractive model wanders round the ring announcing Round Two we can look back and ask ourselves some taxing questions. Obviously we won the round, but it was a tight, scrappy contest, until such time as we landed a few knockout blows towards the bell. And never has that been truer than in Max Hitchin's case, who must have thought he was heading to the police cells after basically assaulting an opponent in the penalty area by trying what can only be described as an 'audacious' overhead kick.</p>
<p>Charterhouse started their ISFA campaign by conceding a goal to the visitors - Latymer Upper. The home side then knocked on the door like a crazed UPS man before Garrard finally answered, signing for his parcel with a flourish and scoring from approximately one yard. Then, finally, breathing space. Raber, who was more inconsistent than Tiger Woods post 2008, knocked a beautiful ball across the pitch, whereupon Ollie Platts converted with a fine header. And at half time, confidence seemed high. And yet, within 10 minutes, Latymer Upper were back, pulling level at 2 - 2 and the game hung in the balance. It was all so unnecessarily tense, like the opening to that Luther episode where the fella comes out from under the bed. Genuinely terrifying.</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter it was 6 - 2! Bizarre. Goals rained in from Hammond, Alex Ford, Will Dovell and Jimmy Hawkings and Charterhouse stretched away, like an old Rolls Royce which had spluttered awhile, grunted a bit, lurched across some potholed roads and then started to show its potential. Though we've still to make it to the open road. We probably muttered along around 35 - 40 miles per hour in occasionally heavy traffic. But we could feel the potential through our tatty leather seats and we luxuriated in the feeling of class, pedigree and timeless magic. Actually the reality is that we travel by a 62 mph limited minibus. That will be a fun journey to Crosby then...</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Latymer-Upper-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Latymer-Upper-SchoolFri, 07 Oct 2016 14:46:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Saturday 24 September to 1 October </i></p>
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<div>The girls won 10 - 2 away at St Catherine's School on Thursday 29 September. </div>
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<h3>Football </h3>
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<div>The girls’ team won 2 - 1 at Sevenoaks on Tuesday 27 September.</div>
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<div>The Golf team won the game versus Tonbridge on Thursday 29 September.</div>
<h3>Hockey </h3>
<div>On the Thursday the girls drew 1 -1 against Lancing.</div>
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<div>The boys’ 2nd Pair also enjoyed an away win on Thursday at Marlborough.</div>
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<div>The U15s Pair also played on the Thursday winning well at Radley College.</div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-12http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-12Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:14:00 +0000Prep School Six-a-Side<p>Charterhouse hosted the 32nd annual Prep School U11 Six-a-Side Competition on Sunday 25 September. Ten teams took part in a highly entertaining and hard fought afternoon of football. </p>
<p>In the plate competition, for teams placed third and fourth in their groups, Rokeby overcame Milbourne Lodge 1 - 0 whilst The New Beacon defeated Aldro 3 - 0. In the final, it was The New Beacon who retained The Bailey Cup as they beat Rokeby in a tight plate final.</p>
<p>In the main competition, Feltonfleet beat Hoe Bridge 3 - 0 in the first semi-final with Shrewsbury House just edging past Aldro 1 - 0 in the second semi-final. In the final itself, Shrewsbury House were the eventual winners of the GO Smith Trophy with Feltonfleet taking home The Charterhouse Plate.</p>
<p>It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and the boys were a credit to their schools. Special thanks to the Charterhouse boys who refereed the matches and to all who supported the teams on the sunny September afternoon.</p>
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<p><i>The winning Shrewsbury House squad with Charterhouse Headmaster, Richard Pleming</i></p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Prep-School-Six-a-Sidehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Prep-School-Six-a-SideThu, 29 Sep 2016 14:48:00 +0000Alan Shearer Foundation Tournament<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Martin-Bicknell-16-2.jpg" /></p>
<p>Martin Bicknell, Director of Cricket at Charterhouse, represented the International Cricketers against the International Footballers in Portugal last week. The event, held in conjunction with the Alan Shearer Foundation is a three day event when the world of sport comes together with the corporate world to help raise funds for the Alan Shearer Foundation.</p>
<p>The Cricketers, represented by Graeme Swann, Steve Harmison, Phil Defreitas and Gladstone Small to name but a few took on the Footballers, Alan Shearer, Lee Hendrie, Rob Lee and Lee Bowyer et al, at the Vale de Lobo and San Lorenzo golf courses. The Footballers ran out winners for the third successive year.</p>
<p>This annual event raises a significant <span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">amount of money for deserving charities and Martin was very happy to take part in such a prestigious event.</span></p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Alan-Shearer-Foundation-Tournamenthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Alan-Shearer-Foundation-TournamentMon, 26 Sep 2016 11:16:00 +0000Round-up of Sport <div><i style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial;">Monday 19 to Sunday 25 September</i></div>
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<p>On Tuesday 20 September the Girls' Football team defeated Westminster 5 - 3 in a home match.</p>
<h3>Golf</h3>
<h3><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Golf team enjoyed a 2 - 1 victory in Round One of the HMC Golf Competition against Westminster School on Thursday 22 September.</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1st XI Girls' Hockey team beat King Edward's Witley 1 - 0 in a home match on Saturday 24 September. </span></h3>
<h3>Lacrosse</h3>
<h3><span style="font-size: 13.2px; background-color: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday 22 September the Girl’s 1st Lacrosse team had an excellent game winning 12 - 6 away at Bradfield. </span></h3>
<h3>Racquets</h3>
<p>The U15 Junior Colts Pair of Alex Topley and Jonnie Capuano have had a perfect start to the season with good wins over Wellington College on Thursday 15 and St Pauls' on Thursday 22 September in the first two fixtures of the season.</p>
<h3>Swimming</h3>
<p>On Saturday 24 September the Senior Boys’ team competed very well in both relays at the South East Region Team Championships at Guildford Spectrum following on from their match versus the OCs earlier in the day.</p>
<p><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 13.2px;">Ellery McGowan (Head of Swimming) won her age group category in the British Masters Open Water Swimming Championships on Sunday 25 September swimming 3.3 km in the Serpentine.</span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-11http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-11Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:59:00 +00001st XI v Westminster <h3>1st XI v Westminster </h3><h6>On: Tuesday, 20 September 2016 </h6><h6>Venue: Home </h6><h6>Result: Won 4 - 2</h6><p>The auld enemy. The oldest football game in the world. Forget about that Orkney match. And forget about some game played in the dark ages in Nottingham. If you were to find yourself in a Delorean - with an accessible flux capacitor - you'd want to set the date to 1863 and go to Vincent Square. And why not take the doc and Marty? And Einstein the dog. Leave Jennifer though. It would cause a rift in the time space continuum. She was never as strong as Marty. </p><p>So Westminster came to town for the 153rd anniversary match. And they met a resolute Charterhouse side, flying from a great start to the season. And one slotted Hammond penalty later, it looked as if the home side were off and running again, a feeling that lasted right up until Westminster cut a swathe through the defence and scored a really well taken goal to equalise. Charterhouse were flat, increasingly sloppy and wasteful, like a stroppy youth drinking out of a red plastic cup in an American teen movie. The one bright spark was Andrade-Brown, who was simply marvellous, patrolling the left wing with the authority of a genuine Marxist. Unlike the tired old stereotype about people's political views moving to the right with age, he got further left as time elapsed, providing genuine width as a natural corollary to Jamie Platts who likes going inside so much, it's a wonder he doesn't have a criminal record. However it were Platts who pulled us up t'hill, like that little fella in the Hovis advert. He single-handedly retook the lead, wandering through the Westminster defence like a pre-Vietnam Elvis before dispatching a bullet into the top of the net. He was at it again moments later, smashing another goal into the far top corner of the net. And then Hitchins scored and it was 4 - 1. And that should have been that. But it wasn't that. No. There was still time for us to concede an awful goal, which gave Westminster a sniff and time after that for us to get thoroughly depressed about a few bad habits and some more slovenly passages of play. </p><p>And so, a 4 - 2 win resulted in soul searching and introspection, because that's just what we do. Take it or leave it.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Westminsterhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-WestminsterFri, 23 Sep 2016 15:21:00 +00001st XI v Lancing<h3>1st XI v Lancing</h3>
<h6>On: Thursday, 22 September 2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 5 - 2</h6>
<p>Have at that doubters. With four missing on a Geography field trip, one at a racquets match, another injured and a few more unavailable for the sake of making the story more interesting, Charterhouse went down to Lancing with their side in tatters. But like Elizabeth at Tilbury in 1588 they peered out over the English Channel and proclaimed 'I have the heart and stomach of a King and a King of England too!' Alright irritatingly Tilbury happens to be in Essex but the point stands. Stomach for the fight. Tick. Hearts aflame with passion and desire. Tick. Onwards then. This was a tough assignment. Charterhouse were underdogs. Six players made their league debut - Ford, Dovell, Campbell, West, Chadha and Mercer. And they were all immense. They all brought something to the party, none more so than Chadha who brought white tights and a roller for his calves. Amazing. Charterhouse took the lead through a magnificent flowing move which culminated with Dovell popping one in the postage stamp to general gasps of astonishment at the beauty of the whole thing. If it were possible I'd have released thousands of doves into the sky and organised for a black-tied orchestra to play some sort of concerto. It was that good. But then, because Carthusians love a bit of Tommy Sutton and are firm believers in the school motto, they - God having given - gave. This time another conceded penalty brought the scores level. 1-1 at half time.</p>
<p>There then followed one of the great scraps of our time over which match ball to use. Back and forwards we went. Our ball was on the pitch. We scored (a tremendous volley from Kristensen who was like a particularly angry Viking warrior today). Their ball was on the pitch. No goals. Our ball was on the pitch. We scored (a sublime finish from Ford). Their ball was on the pitch. They scored. And then we scored twice with their ball! It was pandemonium, Garrard off the mark and then a beautifully taken Orlando Allen goal.</p>
<p>It was a wonderful result. And there was sausage, chips and beans for tea! So as the sun sets on the South Downs and we gaze up at the 50 mile walk homebill stop, we realise we've not quite made it 20 miles. But we've made a strong start. We're unbeaten in five and face the OCs before our ISFA cup clash with Latymer Upper next week. We know we've got quality and heart. But there are tough days to come. We might need our very own Francis Drake in the days ahead.</p>
<p>'There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.'</p>
<p>They don't write 'em like that any more.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Lancing-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Lancing-1Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:58:00 +0000 1st XI v Forest School<h3>1st XI v Forest School</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday, 17 September 2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 6 - 2</h6>
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<p>Blimey where did this autumnal weather come from? Some coaches wore trousers on Saturday, one of whom disgraced himself by catching a ball a full two yards onto the playing surface before relegating himself to the stands and issuing a series of stilted and bashful apologies to all and sundry. On the pitch Charterhouse started as if they’d just got off a long plane ride from sunnier climes. They were barely out the door, blinking in the sunlight, noisily adjusting their watches and bemoaning their choice of footwear before reality hit home and Forest were ahead. Throwing aside their silly beach-bought bangles and realising too late that nobody would think their sombrero was anything other than a desperate attempt at looking well travelled, Charterhouse unpacked their bits, filled up the tank and got back on the road to work. And without ever being brilliant, somehow they went into the break with a 3 - 1 lead, goals from Jamie and Ollie Platts and an utter barnstormer from Harry Gilbey, who thumped in the sort of header that Sir Lesley Ferdinand would be proud to call his own.</p>
<p>The second half saw exactly the same score line, with Charterhouse running out 6 - 2 winners, further goals coming from Gilbey (what a week he’s having), Raber and Orlando Allen, who was magnificent for the second game in succession. On top of this, Charterhouse hit the bar twice and the post once and that’s before Max Hitchins’ chances are counted up. But Hitchins is a goal machine and he’s got netbusters in him, so it was a good day for him to miss all those open goals. Much to be positive about. Charterhouse weren’t at their peak but showed glimpses of real quality. And with players showing a genuine versatile ability to play in new positions (like Hitchins, Hawkings and Garrard), there are improvements to be made, options to be had and exciting times ahead. We welcome Westminster on Tuesday. I’m going to sit on the bench for the whole game. Even though it was a great catch.</p>
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<h6>On: Wednesday, 14 <span style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">September </span>2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 1 - 0</h6>
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<p>The season proper started on Big Ground on a Wednesday afternoon with the usual promise, ideological waffle and prophetic pronouncements that won’t add up to much. It’s about time we quoted Trotsky, who described his ambitions as the Bolsheviks’ first commissar for foreign affairs thus:</p>
<p>‘I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations to the peoples of the world and then shut up shop.’</p>
<p>And this, in a nutshell is what Charterhouse did. Employing some intriguing new tactical changes and with a clear game plan, Charterhouse took the lead and then held onto it for the remainder of the game. What about that eh Leon?</p>
<p>September’s balmy weather continued to be a source of tremendous small talk, as Alleyn’s visited Charterhouse for the first league fixture of the season. Arriving a full two hours before kick off, Alleyn’s were exceptionally well prepared, but Charterhouse, a full twenty minutes after negotiating hash 7, weren’t about to let momentum unmoment. No. Barely three minutes were on the clock when Hammond, known better in the parish as ‘Jojo’ buried a header and secured a lead. It may well be the first goal ever witnessed by the legendary Bob Noble since his retirement from Big Ground and we all hoped it might be the last. In terms of opposition goals I mean. Rather than any more from Charterhouse as it were. Anyway. Charterhouse were absolutely buzzing and played some wonderful football at times, though there was an increasing sense of fragility, as dusk approached and the defence started to drop deeper in that way defences do. Alleyn’s had a couple of top chances and the game got ever more stretched. And as the whites threatened the strategic advantage of the reds (well okay maroons but I’m in the middle of something here), I’m sure many a spectator thought of the Russian Civil War. Much like the Bolsheviks, the home side held firm and, while some tactical elements might seem out of kilter with what’s gone before, I’m reminded of Lenin’s quote about the New Economic Policy, that sometimes you have to take one step backwards to take two steps forwards. Anyway, in a nutshell we ‘shut up shop’ but we’re hoping for a brighter fixture than Trotsky, otherwise we’ll be getting a metaphorical ice pick in the neck at some point. Let’s hope it’s not against Forest on Saturday. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Alleyns-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Alleyns-SchoolTue, 20 Sep 2016 11:06:00 +0000ISFA Six-a-Side Competition <div>
<h3>ISFA Six-a-side Competition </h3>
<h6>On: Sunday, <span style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11 </span>September 2016</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 6 - 2</h6>
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<p>We discovered a new word on the speed-limited journey to Bolton School late Saturday afternoon: dyspeptic. Determined as we were to use our newly-extended lexicon, there was absolutely no need, given the brilliant performance of the ISFA sixes squad, composed of Barlow, Margarson, Garrard, Hawkings, Allen, Hammond, Hitchins, Platts and Platts. Semi-finalists for the second year in succession, Charterhouse had their dream dashed by a rampant and hugely efficient Royal Russell School, who then went on to win the tournament by defeating Hampton School.</p>
<p>With the sun beating down on a September day in Bolton - which saw considerable damage done to those of us afflicted by our Celtic genes - Charterhouse looked at their group, noted the presence of some genuinely big names and then just metaphorically turned their baseball caps around, flicked imaginary dust from their shoulders and doubtless inspired by Coach Taylor and the Dillon Panthers chanted ‘clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!’ The squad ended up top of their group, having secured draws against Shrewsbury and UCS and good victories against Forest, St John’s Enfield and Ardingly School. On then to the quarter finals, where Charterhouse were professional and efficient in dispatching City of London School from the tournament. Ultimately the journey would end at the semi-final stage, Royal Russell proving too good and running out as 2 - 0 winners.</p>
<p>But it’s the start of another journey and I’m not talking about the long minibus ride home. Rather we find ourselves looking out over the uplands, with a destination in mind but a route somewhat unclear. We are, to belt out the Boss, ‘dancing in the dark’. It’s great to have football back. You were missed old friend. We really must get together more often. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Six-a-Side-Competitionhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Six-a-Side-CompetitionTue, 20 Sep 2016 09:51:00 +0000Best U19 UK Player <p>At the World U19 Squash Championships held in Poland from 5 - 17 August, Charlie Lee (F) progressed further than any other British player in the singles event, reaching the last 16. In the team event which followed he led a three-man England team to the semi-finals, where he lost in a close five-game thriller to an Egyptian who had reached the final of the individual event only days before. Having left Charterhouse in the summer with the equivalent of two A grades and an A* under his belt, Charlie is now recognised as the best squash player of his age in England and he intends to play in professional tournaments before considering university in 2017. We wish him good fortune and will follow with interest his progress up the squash rankings.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Best-U19-UK-Playerhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Best-U19-UK-PlayerWed, 14 Sep 2016 15:56:00 +0000Football Team Compete in Sweden<p>The U15s Football squad competed in the Gothia World Youth Cup, Gothenburg, which is the world’s largest international youth football tournament running from Sunday 17 to Friday 23 July. Each year, around 1600 teams from 80 nations take part and they play 4500 games on 110 fields.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Team-Compete-in-Swedenhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Team-Compete-in-SwedenWed, 14 Sep 2016 11:26:00 +0000Fantastic Mr Fox<div><br></div><div>Charterhouse is delighted to announce that 33-year-old Great Britain hockey star Dan Fox will join the School in September, following the Rio Olympic Games, as its first full time Director of Hockey. He will combine his role with continuing to play for Premier Division Hockey outfit Holcombe in the England Hockey National League.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Having graduated from Oxford University with a Geography degree, Dan combined a teaching career with his love of hockey, and taught geography at Cranleigh School and North London Collegiate School, prior to becoming a full time Olympic athlete. For the past two years, Dan has coached at Charterhouse, including being head coach for the boys’ hockey 1st XI.</div><div><br></div><div>Dan is a defensive rock who provides a calm composure for his team and has amassed more than 155 combined caps for England and Great Britain. He made his Olympic debut at London 2012, scoring in the opening game against Argentina. He also has a silver medal from the 2010 Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach and a bronze medal from the 2014 Commonwealth Games.</div><div><br></div><div>When Dan isn’t playing hockey he is also a very good cricketer; in 2004 he scored 104 for Oxford in the Varsity match and boasts a higher first class average (73.75) than West Indies legend Brian Lara (51.88).</div><div><br></div><div>Director of Sport Nick Beasant noted "we are thrilled that Dan is representing Great Britain at his second Olympic Games in Rio, following on from his successful debut at London 2012. We wish him and all the squad the very best of luck over the coming weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Post Rio, we are delighted that he will be taking up the post as our first ever full time Director of Hockey at Charterhouse. I know he will bring all his international experience and undoubted coaching ability to help our pupils to become the very best hockey players they can be. It promises to be a very exciting appointment for Charterhouse Sport".</div><div><br></div>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Fantastic-Mr-Foxhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Fantastic-Mr-FoxFri, 05 Aug 2016 10:12:00 +0000Lashings World XI hosted at Charterhouse<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Cricket-lashings2.jpg" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">It wasn’t just the sound of cricket ball on willow that echoed round the stunning surroundings of Charterhouse on Sunday 31 July, but in fact the jamboree that is the Lashings World XI.</span></p>
<p>The School hosted two fixtures against the ‘All Stars’; one against the current 1st XI and one against the Old Carthusian Friars. Both were entertaining and enjoyable matches which were played either side of an excellent fundraiser lunch for over 260 invited guests.</p>
<p>The Lashings World XI, originally formed in 1984 as a scratch team, has grown into its current day team of cricketing greats. Based in Maidstone, Kent, the team has attracted a number of international cricketers and other celebrities to its ranks, and this weekend was no exception with likes of Monty Panesar, Chris Lewis, Alex Tudor, joining the legendary Gordon Greenidge and current Lashings captain Chris Schofield in the side. The matches were the brainchild of Charterhouse Director of Cricket, and former Surrey and England bowler, Martin Bicknell who also doubles up as vice-captain and a brand ambassador for Lashings. For Martin, the entire day was a win/win on several levels!</p>
<p>Match one saw Charterhouse, captained by Jonny Charles (L16), take on Lashings in a 16 over a side match. The visitors batted first and Charterhouse soon had them reduced to 25-2 from 5 overs with Austin Wilman (W) returning impressive figures of 3 overs 2-10, having taken the wickets of both Sherwin Campbell and Tino Best. When Jimmy Hawkings (R) claimed the prize scalp of Gordon Greenidge for 14, Lashings were 31-3 from 7 overs. However, skipper Schofield alongside Tudor restored some normality to proceedings with a sensible stand of 25. When Tudor fell it was left to West Indian test opener Kirk Edwards to deliver some lusty blows in a quick fire innings of 42 to leave Charterhouse chasing 123 off their 16 overs.</p>
<p>In response, the Charterhouse run chase proved to be an excellent effort against an attack which not only included Best, Tudor and Schofield, but also current 1st class cricketers Charl Willoughby, Yasir Arafat and Monty Panesar. Ishaan Rajan (L) and Harry Gilbey (W) batted maturely and with a great deal of skill to take the hosts to 54 from 8 overs, before Rajan became one of Panesar’s 3 victims. In the end, spin from both ends strangled the Charterhouse innings as they closed on 110-5 from their allotted overs. Although a defeat, it was an excellent match, played in the right spirit for this illustrious occasion.</p>
<p>The afternoon highlights included some very entertaining pitch side commentary from renowned broadcaster and raconteur Henry Blofeld as Lashings took on the Old Carthusians. An opening stand of 136 between Kirk Edwards (86) and Chris Schofield (52) propelled the All Stars to a formidable target of 178-3 from their 20 overs. Darren Hooey (V03) stole the show with bowling figures of 4 overs 1-9, which given the brutal hitting witnessed elsewhere, were quite remarkable. In response, the Friars found it hard going and eventually fell to 101 all out from 17 overs. However, this was not before there was an almighty dual at the top of the order between skipper, and former Hampshire player, James Hamblin (g96) and Tino Best with Hamblin scoring a squash buckling 29 against the pace attack of Best and Arafat.</p>
<p>All in all, the entire day was a most enjoyable event as inaugural fixtures between the School and Lashings. The cricket was almost a pleasant sideshow to the razzmatazz which comes with hosting such a team and most importantly some excellent money was raised for the Lashings Foundation and Charterhouse in the process. A big thank you to all those who helped and were involved, especially Martin Bicknell who oversaw the day's success.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-hosted-Lashings-World-XIhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-hosted-Lashings-World-XIWed, 03 Aug 2016 13:26:00 +0000Shooting Success at Bisley<div>The shooting team had a successful week competing at Bisley. There were 48 school teams taking part, with approximately 575 competitors. Also present were teams from Canada and South Africa.</div>
<p>Below are the Charterhouse successes:</p>
<h3>Team</h3>
<div>Winners of The Marling Cup </div>
<div>Winners of the Gallery Competition</div>
<div>Second place in the Falling Plate Competition</div>
<div>Third place GP Rifle match</div>
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<div>The Charterhouse Team comprised: Ross Lawson (P), Alex Fomin (P), Ben Zarbafi (g), Scott Nettelton (g), Michael Shutt (D), Oscar Daglish (S), Oliver Lofthouse (R), Caius Patel (B), Nathan Rowland (P).</div>
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<div>Winner Topham Quaich: Ross Lawson (P)</div>
<div>Winner Gallery rifle competition: Alex Fomin (P)</div>
<div>2nd place Champion at Arms: Ross Lawson (P)</div>
<div>2nd Place in the Wellington Trophy: Ross Lawson (P)</div>
<div>2nd Place Clay target match: Michael Shutt (D)</div>
<div>2nd Place GP Rifle Challenge match: Ross Lawson (P)</div>
<div>3rd Place GP Rifle Challenge match: Alex Fomin (P)</div>
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<div>Staff Cup: Flight Sergeant Lay finished eighth and Major Follett finish fiftheenth out of 123.</div>
<div>The overall winners of the week were Wellington College, with Dollar Academy in second place.</div>
<div> </div>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Shooting-Team-Successhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Shooting-Team-SuccessFri, 15 Jul 2016 14:01:00 +0000Teacher Wins Latvian Open<p>On Thursday 7th July, James Silvester (Mathematics teacher and Head of Tennis) went to compete in a Racketlon World Tour Event in the Latvian capital, Riga.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Racketlon – for those unaware – is a sports competition where players compete in 4 sports, namely table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis. Each sport is played first to 21 points with the winner being the player/team with the highest cumulative total of points. Every point counts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">With the World Doubles Championships taking place in Copenhagen at the end of July, this provided a good opportunity to play against the world’s best and form a good doubles pairing. Playing with Leon Griffiths – a national U19 badminton player as well as a strong tennis player – we looked to take it one match at a time and see where it took us! Not least as I had only just returned to competitive sport after suffering a shoulder injury.</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Our opening fixture was a Friday afternoon match against a strong Swiss pair, which included a former national champion of table tennis. Straight away, we had our work cut out as we fought for every point. In the end, a 17 – 21 score was a good start. Then our first strength – badminton. This was where we could press home an advantage, coming out on top 21 – 5, meaning we were “+12” going into squash. Onto squash, where the first nominated player from each pair played up to 11 points, before players changed and then the second players finished the match up to 21 points. It was a close contest, but we ran out 21 – 13 winners. This meant that going into the tennis round, we only need 2 points to win! Having seen us warm up beforehand, our opponents conceded meaning we progressed to the semi finals.</span></div>
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<p>Saturday morning it was the turn of a strong Swedish pair who had knocked out the second seeds the previous evening. The match took a similar path to our opening game, as we had to overcome another strong table tennis pairing! This time we managed 12 points in table tennis before winning badminton 21 – 5 which put us “+7” going on to squash. A very even battle then took place which was physically exhausting, but after almost 40 minutes on the squash court we were victors 21 – 17. Then time to get the tennis rackets out – to make the final, we needed 11 points. Luckily, this was our comparative strength and our opponents weakness! Getting the required 11 points for the loss of only 2 meant that Great Britain would have representatives in the final!</p>
<p>Saturday night, we played the favourites, number 1 seeds and local boys from Riga. Televised on a live stream on Latvian TV (!), it now was time to go for gold. Playing yet another strong table tennis pairing, we got off to a very good start going 10 – 3 up before our opponents played some sensational table tennis to the delight of the home crowd. A 15 – 21 score after table tennis was a good start in our eyes. We knew though that badminton would be a good round for us; they were still a strong pair but playing a tactically sound match we were 21 – 6 victors putting us “+9” going into squash.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The closest match up was always going to be squash, and so it proved. Brutal squash as everyone gave it their all. 20 – 22 which meant that we needed 15 points to take the title.</span></p>
<p>With the pressure increasing, we knew that as long as we kept our heads, the title was ours. They were also tennis specialists which meant we really had to be on the ball. At one stage the score was 8 – 8 and the home crowd we anticipating a great Latvian comeback! However, despite having made a couple of unforced errors, we played some solid tennis getting to 15 – 10 meaning we were crowned the IWT Latvia Open Men Doubles Champions!</p>
<p>1st Round vs Switzerland: 17 – 21, 21 – 5, 21 – 13 2 – 2 (+20)</p>
<p>Semi Final vs Sweden: 12 – 21, 21 – 5, 21 – 17, 11 – 2 (+20)</p>
<p>Final vs Latvia: 15 – 21, 21 – 6, 20 – 22, 15 – 10 (+12)</p>
<div>Next stop is Copenhagen for the World Championships at the end of July. There is also an event at the Surrey Sports Park from 19 – 21st August which is open to anyone who wishes to play. For more information see <a href="http://">www.racketlon.co.uk </a> </div>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Teacher-Wins-Latvian-Openhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Teacher-Wins-Latvian-OpenWed, 13 Jul 2016 11:11:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Monday 13 June to Sunday 19 June</i></p>
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<p>In the Five Schools Athletics Match held here at Charterhouse on Saturday 18 June, the highlights of the day for the home side were Hamish MacKinnon and Guy Boliston winning their respective races and the junior team managing to finish fourth in their age group. </p>
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<p>Also on Saturday 18 June in a block cricket fixture against Lord Wandsworth, the 1st XI lost by 6 wickets. But other teams fared much better with the 2nd XI, U15A, U15B, U15C, U14A and U14C all winning their matches. Of special note in the 2nd XI match was James Hockley’s performance with the ball: he took five wickets for eight runs in his four allotted overs. </p>
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<p>It was a busy afternoon for the tennis teams on Saturday 18 June. Three senior boys VIs and two senior girls VIs played doubles against Bradfield, with both 1st VIs picking up hard fought victories. The standard of doubles play was very high throughout the afternoon. At home, the U14s had a tough afternoon, though the U14B side managed to pick up a victory. The U15 in almost predictable fashion produced a clean sweep of convincing victories. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-10http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-10Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:04:00 +0000Success in Athletics<div>Nine athletes represented Waverley at the Surrey Schools’ Games on Saturday 11 June. Obi Onyejekwe won the inter boys 100m Hurdles and Hamish MacKinnon won the senior boys 400m. There were silver medals in the senior boys javelin for Rory Fisk, in the inter boys 400m hurdles for Alex O’Callaghan-Brown and a bronze medal for Ben Dunscombe in the senior boys 800m. Also competing were Rob Parham, Jonathan Hodson, Angus Thomson and Louis Thomson.</div>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Success-in-Athleticshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Success-in-AthleticsFri, 17 Jun 2016 15:00:00 +0000Win for Head Coach <p>Phil Collier, National Team Director (and Charterhouse Head Coach) led a storming 13-7 win over Australia in Melbourne, with England wrapping up a 2-1 series victory over the hosts. The long awaited test series saw the England side draw first blood in what is seen by both sides as the opening shots in the campaign for next summer’s World Cup, to be hosted at Surrey Sports Park in July 2017. </p><p>England had set off for Australia as the clear underdog having not beaten the Australian national side since a friendly in 2009. In fact, the last meeting in competition between the two sides, in the 2013 World Cup, saw Australia come out a comfortable winders 12-6. However, this year’s tourists were a very different kettle of fish with a new development structure, management team and a much refreshed squad. </p><p>The squad arrived in Melbourne at the beginning of the month in time to play a series of Australian state sides and a New Zealand XII taking part in the Australian National Championships. Early results were mixed with England overall holding their own, but posting a loss against Victoria and a draw against South Australia. Significantly those two teams supply most of the players for the Australian national side. </p><p>The test series was played on consecutive days 9, 10 and 11 June at the Footscray Hockey Club, Melbourne. England set the pace in the first test delivering a convincing 13-7 win and a clear statement of intent that they were here to win. Australia picked up the challenge and levelled the series with a close 9-8 win in the second test. </p><p>With all to play for in the final match Australia came out with a barnstorming start, running up an early 5-1 lead before England got a grip on the game. A concerted effort by the tourists saw them claw back the deficit and go on to outscore the Australians 12-2 to win the final match and the series 13-7, a repeat of the first match score. </p><p>Collier's next challenge on the road to 2017 will be to lead England in a match against the current World Champions, the USA on the 2 July at Surrey Sports Park.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-for-Head-Coachhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-for-Head-CoachThu, 16 Jun 2016 10:29:00 +0000Trio of Trophies <p>A long and, at times, tough season ended up a glorious one for the Old Carthusians (OC) 3rd XI. While Division 2 of the Arthurian League has been won by an OC side for 7 years in a row now, it quickly became apparent that this season would be different. Three new 1st XI sides had joined the league and each raced into an early lead. Our league season started well, but a number of early season Cup games left us playing catch up with several games in hand. </p>
<p>The squad was a perfect mix of youth and experience. The core of the squad remained from the previous season, whilst the addition of Robbie Hughes and Ned Lutyens straight from School added some much needed pace and enthusiasm. Both settled into the side brilliantly both on and off the pitch, and will surely win many more trophies for the OCFC in years to come. Injuries, moves abroad and promotions to the 1st XI reduced the squad to its bare bones at times, but such is the depth of OC Footballing talent that there was always a saviour out there willing to step in and put weekend plans on ice. Two of the best performances of the season were saved for our biggest rivals, the OC 2nd XI, with two victories putting us back in the hunt for the league title. We were also progressing nicely in both the Junior League (JLC) and London Old Boys (LOB) Cups. </p>
<p>The fixture congestion resulted in a number of double-headers being played which threatened to derail the depleted squad. However a number of battling performances with limited numbers earned crucial points, setting us up for a late season burst as players recovered form and fitness. After battling through to the final of both the JLC and the LOB Cups we were faced with a simple equation – four wins from four would win us the treble. With help from other players in the club as holiday and wedding season kicked in, it was a real club effort to get us over the line. Cup final wins in May against Lancing and Old Salvatorians, plus back to back wins against Millfield 1st XI secured the trio of trophies. Well done to all involved.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Trio-of-Trophieshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Trio-of-TrophiesThu, 16 Jun 2016 09:59:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<div></div><p><i>Monday 6 to Sunday 12 June</i></p><h3>Athletics</h3><p>Nine athletes from Charterhouse represented Waverley at the Surrey Schools’ Games on Saturday 11 June. Obi Onyejekwe won the Inter Boys 100m Hurdles and Hamish MacKinnon won the Senior Boys 400m. There were silver medals in the Senior Boys Javelin for Rory Fisk and in the Inter Boys 400m Hurdles for Alex O’Callaghan-Brown and a bronze medal for Ben Dunscombe in the Senior Boys 800m. Also competing were Rob Parham, Jonathan Hodson, Angus Thomson and Louis Thomson. </p><p>On Thursday 9 June in the match against Seaford College there were wins for: Henry Rowland (TJ), Tife Austen-Peters (LJ), Rob Parham (HJ), Alex O’Callaghan-Brown (400m) and the 4 x 400m Relay team. </p><h3>Cricket</h3><p>In the usual difficult block fixture against Eton on 11 June, the 1st XI cricket lost by 6 wickets, however, there was a notable win for the U15C team while the 2nd XI and U14A teams both drew their matches. </p><h3>Rowing</h3><p>On Saturday 11 June, Charterhouse won two gold medals at the ‘Marlow Town Regatta’: Yaroslav Chichvarkin in Intermediate 3 Single Sculls and George Campbell-Wilson in the J16 Single Sculls (where he rowed one year above his age). Felix Woodward came second in the Novice Single Sculls. All other crews raced very well, gaining lots of experience in the process. </p><h3>Tennis </h3><p>It was a busy afternoon for the tennis teams on Saturday 11 June. The 4 senior VIs played Mixed Doubles against Wellington, with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd VIs picking up victories. </p><p>At home the Junior sides played against Eton. The U14s had a tough afternoon, though the U14D side managed to pick up a victory. The U15s had an excellent match with the U15A and U15B putting in some high quality performances despite not winning. The U15C and U15D sides were convincing winners. </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-9http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-9Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:12:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Monday 23 to Sunday 29 May</i></p>
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<p>Girdlestoneites retained the 32 x 100m relay title in the House Athletics.</p>
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<p>On Carthusian Day, 28 May, the 1st XI lost by 2 runs against the OCs in their 20/20 curtain raiser and then lost by 2 wickets against the same opposition. Christian Peplow scored an excellent century.</p>
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<p>The U15s defeated Cranleigh on 12 May. Charterhouse won 3 - 0.</p>
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<p>On Carthusian Day in the Schools' singles events, Ollie Farnfield (R) picked up the Junior Boys' Trophy with Will Handley (W) winning the Senior Boys Trophy. Both finals saw some high quality tennis with all players doing themselves a great deal of credit. The winner of the Senior Girls' Singles was Aoife Berwick. </p>
<p>In the family doubles, it was the Reynolds family who were victorious in the Main event, with the Pascoe family winning the Plate event and the Wilder family winning the Bowl event. Furthermore, this event also helped to raise over £1,500 for The Fountain Centre. </p>
<h3>Duke of Edinburgh Award</h3>
<p>Over half term the Duke of Edinburgh Award pupils completed their expedition to the Lake District. The pupils were a very cohesive group so morale was consistently high. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-8http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-8Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:25:00 +0000Festival of Tennis<p>Carthusian Day 2016 took place on a sunny warm Saturday (28 May). One of the events this year was a ‘Festival of Tennis’ which included the largest family tennis tournament to date, together with the finals of both the Junior and Senior Boys’ Singles competitions. All eighteen Sports Centre tennis courts were in action throughout the afternoon.</p>
<p>This year’s family competition included a voluntary entry fee which raised over £1600 for the <em>Fountain Centre</em>. The <em>Fountain Centre</em> is a charity for cancer patients, their families and carers located in the St Luke’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. It offers advice, counselling and a huge range of complementary therapies, in a calming and relaxed atmosphere.</p>
<p>The Reynolds family (Hodgsonites) won the family tennis, with the Pascoe family (Saunderites) winning the Plate event and the Wilder family (Pageites) winning the Bowl event. Olliver Farnfield (Robinites) and William Handley (W) triumphed in the Junior and Senior Boys’ Trophies respectively. The Girls’ tournament was won earlier in the week by Aoife Berwick (Fletcherites). All matches included high quality tennis which was much enjoyed by a large audience.</p>
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<p>The Charterhouse tennis teams have had a successful first half of the season. The first VI won their group in the Independent Schools League (versus Marlborough College, Cranleigh and Magdalen College School) and have lost only one block fixture in the campaign so far. All teams look forward to continuing their tennis after exeat.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Festival-of-Tennishttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Festival-of-TennisThu, 02 Jun 2016 10:33:00 +00006-a-Side Cricket<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Teams from 7 different Prep Schools arrived at Charterhouse on Sunday 15 May for the inaugural Prep Schools' 6-a-Side Cricket Tournament.</span></p>
<p>The weather held firm all day which meant that conditions were perfect for a full day of competitive cricket.</p>
<p>Matches were played throughout the day and it was great to see some very talented young players enjoying their cricket and battling hard. The tournament finished with a presentation from the Headmaster where trophies were presented to the winners and runners-up.</p>
<p>In the main competition, Shrewsbury House defeated New Beacon whilst Rokeby overcame Daneshill in their respective semi-finals. In the Plate, Aldro 1 defeated Shrewsbury House 2 and Arnold House defeated Aldro 2.</p>
<p>Both finals were exciting matches with Aldro winning the Plate Final against Arnold House. It was Shrewsbury House who defeated Rokeby in an excellent game to be crowned champions after a very good afternoon's worth of activities.</p>
<p>Well done to all competing schools; we hope to see you again next year for another fantastic tournament. </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/The-6-a-Side-Crickethttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/The-6-a-Side-CricketFri, 27 May 2016 13:44:00 +0000Pupil Wins Gold in Fencing<p>James Russell (W) continues to excel with his fencing. James won Gold in his first Junior U20 ranking competition, 2016/17 season, at Newcastle BRC Epee on Saturday 7 May. It was a huge achievement at a very important tournament. James also won another Silver medal on the May bank holiday, coming second in the U18 Epee competition at the British Youth Championships in Sheffield. He is starting the 2016/17 season already ranked 4th in the U20 boys (and is currently 16th in the UK at senior/adult level). </p>
<p>James is hopeful that he will be selected as part the GB Junior Squad to travel to the various European competitions this coming season. He has been selected to represent England at the UK Schools’ Games from 1 to 4 September.</p>
<p>Director of Sport, Nick Beasant noted, "James continues to excel with his fencing and his recent successes are not only a testament to his undoubted ability but also to his hard work and dedication. He maintains an excellent balance between his academic studies and his sport and we wish him well with this forthcoming international commitments."</p>
<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></font>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupil-Wins-Gold-in-Fencinghttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupil-Wins-Gold-in-FencingTue, 17 May 2016 14:07:00 +0000Win in Senior Tennis<p>It was a busy weekend for Charterhouse.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">In the block fixture at Wellington there were victories for our U15B, U15C, U16B and U16C teams.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The U14A, U15A and U16A squads were at Radley competing as a team in the Junior Independent Schools League (ISL). The team consisted of Peyton Protiva, Alex Moore, Hector Platt, Nick McGleughlin, Oliver Fanfield, Max Say, Adam Phillips, Arran Taylor, Charlie Bruce, Simon Gray, Seb Hallett and Will Morton. There were some excellent all round performances with victories against Wellington (14 - 4), Radley (10 - 8) and Dulwich (12 - 6). With the winner determined on sets Charterhouse did ultimately finish second, though it was the attitude and application of the Carthusians that shone through (especially against Radley).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The 1st Team consisting of Will Handley, James Walker, Herbie Pyke, Nick Dieke, Gabriel Davis, Orlando Allen, John Jillings and Angus Reynolds. The team played in the senior version of the ISL against Cranleigh, Marlborough and Magdalen College School on the Charterhouse Astro courts. The competition was fierce with numerous sets being decided on tiebreaks. In keeping with the competitive nature of the afternoon, it came down to the final set to decide whether Charterhouse or Magdalen College School would be crowned winners. Holding their nerve and with almost everyone watching, Herbie Pyke and Nick Dieke won the final match 10 - 8 in a tie break, meaning that Charterhouse were crowned ISL group winners.</span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-in-Senior-Tennishttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-in-Senior-TennisTue, 17 May 2016 14:01:00 +0000Cricket 1st XI v Winchester College<h3>Charterhouse 1st XI v Winchester College</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 14 May</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away </h6>
<h6>Score: Won by 3 wickets</h6>
<p>Winchester were our next opponents and after winning the toss they chose to bat. We started poorly with the ball and Winchester capitalised on some loose bowling. Freddie Gratton (L), Jimmy Hawkings (R) and skipper Jonny Charles (L) applied the brakes and wickets started to fall. The home side's 151 - 9 from 50 overs was below par and well within our reach. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Ishaan Rajan (L) and Harry Gilbey (W) started well but with the score on 34 we lost four wicket for 11 runs, a sight not uncommon in recent matches. However, in Will Melhuish (S) and George Barlow (V)we recovered and played with calmness and authority. A stand of 90 was ended when Barlow was adjudged LBW for 40. Melhuish and Charles then fell quickly before Louis Clayton (P) and Gratton saw Charterhouse home by three wickets.</span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-1st-XI-v-Winchester-Collegehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-1st-XI-v-Winchester-CollegeMon, 16 May 2016 11:36:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<div>
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<p>The 1st XI fought out a tight draw against the MCC on Thursday 12 May with Captain Jonny Charles taking six wickets. The 2nd XI also beat Ibstock Place School and the U14Ds won against The Royal. On Saturday 14 May against Winchester, there wins for our three senior XIs, along with the U16As, U15Cs, U14As and U14Cs. </p>
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<p style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was a busy weekend for Charterhouse Tennis. On Saturday 14 May there were 4 wins against Wellington, whilst at Radley, three squads competed in the Junior Independent Schools League. There were some excellent all round performances and with the winner determined on sets, Charterhouse ultimately finished second. </p>
<p style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 1st Team also competed in the senior version of the Independent Schools League (ISL) against Cranleigh, Marlborough and Magdelan College School (MCS). In keeping with the competitive nature of the afternoon, it came down to the final set of the afternoon between Charterhouse and MCS. Holding their nerve, Herbie Pyke and Nick Dieke won the final match 10 - 8 in a tie break, meaning that Charterhouse were crowned ISL group winners.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-6http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-6Sun, 15 May 2016 12:39:00 +0000Cricket 1st XI v MCC<h3>Charterhouse 1st XI v MCC</h3>
<h6>On: Thursday 12 May</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home </h6>
<h6>Score: Draw</h6>
<div>MCC arrived to play on Green on a fantastic day for cricket. After winning the toss and batting first, Charterhouse were excellent in the field and bowled with great discipline. At no stage did the senior side get away and with captain Jonny Charles (L) taking 6 - 46, we restricted the visitors to 191 - 9 as the declaration came. However, our frailties with the bat resurfaced. After reaching 47 - 1, we collapsed to 65 - 7 as each batter came and went. Charterhouse ended up hanging on with Freddie Gratton (L) and Jimmy Hawkings (R) batting out for the draw as the overs ran out. However, we have to bat better if we are to compete at any level.</div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-1st-XI-v-MCChttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-1st-XI-v-MCCSat, 14 May 2016 11:32:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<div></div><p><i>Monday 2 to Sunday 8 May</i></p><h3>Cricket</h3><p>The 3rd XI and U14Cs both enjoyed wins against Cranleigh on Thursday 5 May as did the U16As for whom Jai Chopra took a hat-trick.</p><h3>Golf</h3><p>Mark Adshead won the recent Charterhouse Golf Singles Stableford Competition, whilst on Sunday 8 May the Halford Hewitt Family Foursomes saw the Farrell Family win the Hollingsworth Cup for 2016.</p><h3>Rowing</h3><p>There was success at the Ball Cup on Sunday 8 May with gold in J18 double sculls and J16 coxless quad. There were also bronze medals for the J15 coxed quad and Yaroslav Chichvarkin in the J17 single scull.</p><h3>Swimming</h3><p>Congratulations to Piers Bowden who enjoyed a successful ASA South East Regional Swimming Championships at the start of May.</p><h3>Tennis</h3><p>On Wednesday 4 May, the girls 2nds defeated Christ's Hospital, whilst there was only one loss in the boys' block fixture versus Winchester. On Friday 6 May the U15s defeated Claremont Fan Court School. On the Saturday they had a further 6 wins against Cranleigh.</p><h3>Water Polo</h3><p>The Senior Water Polo team beat Cranleigh 12-0 on Thursday 5 May.</p><h3>House Competitions</h3><p>Hodgsonites won the Junior House Basketball Cup 2016, beating Daviesites in overtime. Saunderites and Weekites made the semi-finals. Particular mention should go to Nicholas Dieke (B) (Year 12) who, in his new role as Captain of Basketball, ran the tournament with organising referees, marshalling pupils and collating scores. He and his team ensured the tournament ran smoothly without any teacher intervention required.</p><p>In the House Tennis final Weekites won the battle of the 3rd pairs with Robinites winning the 1st pair match, meaning it all came down to the 2nd pairs. Their match went the distance, with Robinites winning the final set on a sudden death game. It was as close a final as you could possibly get.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-7http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-7Sun, 08 May 2016 14:28:00 +0000Pupils win Medals in Hockey<p>Pupils Raphael Boulanger (P) and Tom Walton (V) competed in the England Hockey Under 16 National Finals for their club, Guildford Hockey Club, reaching the top 4 out of 80 teams. They had drawn with the team who were placed second and scored 2 - 0 in the bronze medal match until their fortunes changed before the final whistle. It was all very close and exciting to be a part the event. </p>
<p>The National Championships for Boys took place over two days in early April at the home of England Hockey, the London 2012 Olympics legacy site, at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. Raphael and Tom played on the pitches used for International competitions including the England and GB teams preparing for Rio 2016. This is the fourth National Finals for each of them and their National Medals include two golds, a bronze and a fourth place over the years. </p>
<p>Hockey participation in England amongst players 16 and under has grown by 40% over the past five years. England Hockey estimate that much of the inspiration for this growth comes from GB’s excellent performance in the London 2012 Olympics, including bronze for the GB women. The growth is also partly driven by players getting more and better exposure to hockey in schools.</p>
<p>Following the England Hockey National Finals, Tom and Raphael won their final Premie<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em;">r League match to top the Premier League in England’s most competitive Boys Hockey League (beating the newly crowned National Champions). They are already looking forward to next season where they will play for both their C</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em;">lub and Charterhouse.</span></p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-win-Medals-in-Hockeyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-win-Medals-in-HockeyMon, 25 Apr 2016 12:00:00 +0000Cricket News<h3>Cricket v Westminster</h3>
<h6>On: Thursday 21 April</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Westminster 151 (all out) Charterhouse 80 - 9</h6>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">After winning the toss Charterhouse invited Westminster to bat. George Barlow (V) struck twice early on before a dogged partnership held the home side up. The turgid pitch didn't help anyone as Westminster ground out 151 off an incredible 74 overs. It left Charterhouse just 34 overs in reply. The home side did make a bit of a mess of the run chase, but just about held on for the draw. This was not a game to bring the crowds back.</span></p>
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<h6>On: Thursday 23 April</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Tonbridge 146 (all out) Charterhouse 152 - 9<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;"> </span></h6>
<p>Tonbridge were the visitors to Green on another very cold and blustery day. After winning the toss and batting, Charterhouse lost Ishaan Rajan (L) and Amartya Kaul (S) quickly before George Barlow (V) and Jack Hunter-Lees (S) put together an excellent partnership on a slow and low wicket that was never straightforward to bat on. When Hunter-Lees fell, so did half the batting as no one was able to support Barlow for any length of time. It took captain Jonny Charles (L) playing sensibly to give Barlow license to expand his shot making and when he fell for 78 it has been an innings of true class. A total of 152 perhaps wasn't the highest, but when Tonbridge fell to 4 - 2 there was hope. An excellent partnership took the game away from Charterhouse and at 135 - 4, the writing appeared to be on the wall. However, needing just 18 to win a spectacular collapse instigated by Charles and Barlow led to Charterhouse running out winners by 6 runs. A truly epic win.</p>
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<h6>On: Thursday 24 April</h6>
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<p>On yet another freezing day Butterflies came to Green in a 35 overs a side match. A raft of changes from the previous day gave some younger players a chance to impress. After winning the toss and batting, Jack Hunter-Lees (S) and Harry Gilbey (W) started with impetus until Gilbey fell. Louis Clayton (P) then joined Hunter-Lees as runs came easily. Clayton went on to score 50 and our score of 186 was a very good performance. In reply both Kai Magee (S) and Sam Browne (S) bowled well, followed by Austin Wilman (W) and Amrtya Kaul (S). Butterflies kept at it though and maintained a good rate throughout. Just 15 was needed off the final over, and once Gilbey had caught the dangerous Stewart the game was over. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-Newshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Cricket-NewsMon, 25 Apr 2016 10:27:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Monday 11 to Sunday 17 April</i></p>
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<p>The 1st XI team were defeated, in a very tight finish, by two wickets against Dulwich College on Saturday 16 April. </p>
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<p>There was an away win for the U18 team against Winchester College on Sunday 17 April.</p>
<h3>Tennis</h3>
<p>The Boys 1st team, U16A, U15A and U14A all recorded victories over Dulwich College on 16 April. The U16s did not drop a set all afternoon. </p>
<p>The Girls 1st, Boys 2nd and U16B <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">teams</span> all won against King Edward’s School Witley. Thank you to those boys who stepped in to play as last minute replacements, after Dulwich and King Edward’s Witley had suffered player losses, due to injury. </p>
<p>On Sunday 17 April, the Boys 1st team enjoyed a hard-fought victory over the Royal Navy team.</p>
<h3><em>Holiday sports news: </em></h3>
<h3>Cricket </h3>
<p>George Barlow enjoyed a successful cricket tour to South Africa in March with the Surrey Academy squad.</p>
<h3>Fives </h3>
<p>The team competed in the National Championships from 20 to 25 March at Shrewsbury. The successes came in the under 14s where the first pair reached the quarter finals, losing to the eventual winners Shrewsbury and the second pair won the plate competition. </p>
<h3>Football</h3>
<p>Jack Hunter Lees (Year 11) represented the ISFA U16 National Squad on their tour to Spain in the first week in April.</p>
<h3>Inter House Athletics</h3>
<p>Although the weather was not brilliant for fast times on the Sunday 17 April, the Inter House Athletics competition was fierce.</p>
<p><em>The junior boys event was won by Saunderites, with Weekites second and Lockites third. </em></p>
<p><em>The inter boys event was won by Verites with Daviesites second and Robinites third. </em></p>
<p><em>The senior boys event was also won by Verites with Lockites second and Robinites third. </em></p>
<p><em>The girls event was a joint win by Saunderites and Weekites with Girdlestoneites third. </em></p>
<p><em>The Lessington Cup for athletics was won by Saunderites, Verites second and Daviesites third.</em></p>
<p>Ben Dunscombe won the Maxwell Cup for running, winning both the 800m and 1500m. Other athletes who won two events were: Hamish MacKinnon in the 200m and 400m, Rob Parham in the javelin and discus, Obi Onyejekwe in the 100m and 100m hurdles, Dare Balogun in the 100m and triple jump and Ben Draper won all three of his events: the 100m, the long jump and triple jump for the senior boys.</p>
<h3>Lacrosse</h3>
<p>Holly Campbell and Isla Scott (Year 13) played in the Home Internationals Lacrosse tournament for Scotland U19s, over the weekend of 16 and 17 April.</p>
<h3>Tennis</h3>
<p>A group of Carthusians and Dr Baugniet (teacher of Modern Languages) completed their Lawn Tennis Association Level 2 tennis coaching qualification at the Queen’s Club, London. Overall, the programme is the most comprehensive of its type run by any school and Charterhouse is probably unique in developing this number of tennis coaches to such a high level. These pupils are now well along the path to becoming professional tennis coaches and will be able to coach during gap years and at university - as well as benefitting from all the other general skills that the course develops (such as leadership, communication and planning).</p>
<p>A dozen Remove tennis players conducted pre-season tennis training at Erquy Tennis Club, Brittany. Matches and games were also played within the group and against local players. Overall the group had a good time and found the experience useful. </p>
<p>The Public School’s Tennis Doubles was on 16 and 17 March. Toby Rawlings (Year 10) partnered with Alex Moore, (Year 9), reaching the Quarter Finals of the Peter Gray Cup (Junior Colts Competition) with two assured victories over Clifton College and then Winchester. Despite being heavily outgunned they stuck to their game plan and played with a calm assurance and intelligence before exiting to an extremely talented top seeded Tonbridge pair.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-4http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-4Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:34:00 +0000Pre-Season Tennis Training<p>A dozen under 15 tennis players went to France for pre-season training during the first week of the Easter holidays. They played at Erquy Tennis Club in Brittany on a variety of surfaces, both in and outdoor. The Head Coach, former Scottish international and Combined Services number one, Austin Coventry, also coaches at Westside Club in Wimbledon. Drills on all shots were practised and the group also worked on personal fitness. They played a number of competitions within themselves and against the local opposition. </p>
<p>Charterhouse Master in Charge of Tennis, James Silvester, commented "the boys did really well and are well prepared now for an enjoyable and successful tennis season".</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pre-Season-Tennis-Traininghttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pre-Season-Tennis-TrainingWed, 30 Mar 2016 13:30:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<p><i>Week 9 - 7 to 13 March</i></p>
<h3>Basketball</h3>
<p>Hodgsonites are the 2016 House Basketball Champions, beating Bodeites in the final 13-9. Fletcherites was placed third with Pageites coming fourth. In the Plate competition Robinites beat Lockites in the final. </p>
<h3>Golf</h3>
<p>On Tuesday 8 March the golf team enjoyed a 4 - 1 win over Harrow in the the Gerald Micklem Trophy but succumbed to a powerful Wellington team in their semi-final despite a strong showing from the entire squad.</p>
<h3>Hockey</h3>
<p>In Hockey there were wins against Bradfield for the boys’ 1st XI, U16As, U16Bs and U14As and U14Bs along with a draw for the U16Cs on Tuesday 8 March. </p>
<p>On Saturday 12 March against Radley, there were 4 wins including an impressive 7 - 0 score line for the U16Bs and hard fought 3 - 2 away win for the 2nd XI. There were a six further draws including the 1st XI and a tantalising 4 - 4 draw for the U15Bs. </p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>Charlie Lee finished third at the English National Under 19 Championships on Sunday 13 March. Charlie lost to the eventual winner and European number 1 Patrick Rooney 3-1 in the semi-finals. In the play off for third place Charlie beat second seed James Peach 3-0. With a year still to go in this age group, Charlie remains one of the dominant forces in U19 squash.</p>
<h3>Swimming</h3>
<p>On Friday 11 March the top male and female swimming teams took part in the Bath Cup National Relays in the Olympic Pool at the Queen Elizabeth Park, arguably the best pool in the world. Daisy Tremlett (g), Raemen Sahney (F), Rebecca Maruzzi (D), led by captain Antonia Menke (g) finished in the top half of their heat and well up the leader board. Captain Alex McIntyre (R), Kieran Nash (F), Piers Bowden (S) and James Cole (G) all competed very well, coming a couple of seconds within their target time. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-3http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-3Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:41:00 +0000Bath Cup & Otter Medley <p><img src="https://charterhouseschool.fluencycms.co.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/SwimmingBath-Cup1.jpg" /></p>
<p>It was a cold and foggy early morning setting off from Charterhouse but well worth it when we reached the bright sleek lines of the Olympic Pool at Queen Elizabeth Park; arguably the best swimming pool in the world. This year Charterhouse were represented by both a Ladies and Men’s team at the Bath cup free relay and Otter Medley relay competitions, the premier National Independent’s Schools event on Friday 11 March. </p>
<p>Our girls were first to break this hallowed water, raced in by the best in the world, with their 40x50 freestyle relay. Daisy Tremlett (g) blasted off in 30.83, with Rebecca Maruzzi (D) returning in 34.84. Next was Raemen Sahney (F) who hit the wall at the far end so hard she sprained her thumb in handing over to Toni Menke (g) who brought the team home in a fabulous 30.55 (2’10.79) coming fourth in the heat placing themselves well up the leader board. </p>
<p>The boys followed in the 4x100 free relay led off by Piers Bowden (S) in a blistering 57.29. Our new member James Cole (G) swam a very fast first length and dug in for the second handing to Kieran Nash (F) in 65.22. Keiran, a seasoned competitor but new to the Olympic pool, swan a 62.22 personal best handing over to team captain Alex McIntyre (R) who brought the team home in style 58.21. The time of 4:02.97 beat the team's target by a couple of seconds, but not quite enough to secure a finals place.</p>
<p>In afternoon the teams competed in the Otter Medley. Raemen led off with backstroke in 41.11 showing no effects of a very sore thumb. Toni swum a powerful 40.74 breaststoke followed by Daisy ('fly) who did not breathe till well into the second half (34.48). Rebecca came home like a train in 35.11 beating her morning time in the free. The men’s heat was reswum following a false start. Piers secured 30.97 in the back, Kieran 35.43 (a LC pb) in the breast, Alex a very fast 27.15 in the ‘fly and James bought the team back with 27.87 in the free (2’01.02).</p>
<p>The teams showed fantastic team spirit with impressive swims that did justice to the occasion and were extremely good company. Thanks to Ellery McGowan for preparing the teams and organising, to Mr and Mrs Nash (Teacher of Economics) for help on the day and to the parents for their support.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Bath-Cup-Otter-Medleyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Bath-Cup-Otter-MedleyMon, 14 Mar 2016 10:58:00 +0000Pupils Qualify for Championships<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Last weekend Tom Walton (V) and Raphael Boulanger (P) competed in the</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">England Hockey Regional Play-Offs for </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guildford Hockey Club.</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;"> They earned a place in the Under 16 National Championships which take place in London on</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">2 and 3 April</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The Championships, also known as the National Cup competition, started in October 2015 with more than 80 teams from across the country taking part. Guildford won all four of their first round matches on full points and with a goal difference of 19. In the next round, they needed to come first in a pool of four teams, which they did in Bournemouth last weekend against the hosts, Ashmoor and Cheltenham.</span></p>
<p>The competition in the National Finals will be very tough with the remaining 8 teams all coming from clubs with strong pedigrees. Raphael and Tom will be playing with Guildford’s top Under 16 Boys team at the Lee Valley National Hockey and Tennis Centre which is part of the London 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park over two days in April. This is the pitch used by the England and GB teams and where they host international events. We wish them the best of luck.</p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-qualify-for-Championshipshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-qualify-for-ChampionshipsFri, 04 Mar 2016 09:12:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<div><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotypeW01-Ita; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Week 7 - 22 to 28 February</span></div>
<h3>Athletics</h3>
<p>Obi Onyejekwe recently came 3rd at the England Indoor Championships registering a PB of 8.16 seconds in the 60m Hurdles. He also competed in the Surrey Championships and picked up Gold in both the 60m flat and 60m Hurdles. </p>
<h3>Basketball</h3>
<p>The U18s won versus Hurtwood House 68 - 27 on Tuesday 23 February and the U16s versus Bradfield 43 - 15 on the Thursday. </p>
<h3>Cheerleading</h3>
<p>The Infinity Cheerleading squad performed at the Super Regional Cheer and Dance Championship held at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Saturday, deservedly winning first place in their last competition of this year. </p>
<h3>Fencing</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charterhouse defeated Worth.</span></p>
<h3>Fives</h3>
<p>Also on the Thursday, the girls' Fives team drew against Berkhamsted.</p>
<h3>Golf</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The team defeated the OCs 3.5 - 1.5 on Sunday 28 February.</span></p>
<h3>Hockey</h3>
<p>On Thursday 25 February the U14As defeated Kingston Grammar School, 2-1 and in matches versus Tonbridge on the Saturday 27February, there were wins for the U16Bs, 3 - 2, U16Cs, 4 - 0 and U15Ds, 4 - 3 with a further 3 draws. </p>
<h3 style="line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lacrosse</h3>
<p style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Lacrosse team competed well at the National School Lacrosse Championships, losing in the last 16 of the B Division Championship.</p>
<h3>Raquets</h3>
<p>On Thursday at Harrow the 1st Pair played hard saving 5 match points, but eventually went on to lose an intense match. However, the Colts and Yearlings pairs both won riveting matches 3 - 2.</p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>The Squash U15s bowed out of the National Cup at the last 16 stage. </p>
<h3>Swimming</h3>
<p>There were wins for the Senior Boys and Girls versus Reed's.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-2http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-2Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:54:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<h4>Week 5 - Monday 8 to Sunday 14 February</h4>
<h3>Hockey</h3>
<p>In the week before half term, the boys' 1st XI Hockey team drew with The Shafts, 1-1 on Tuesday 9 February. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The boys' 1st XI went out in Round 3 of the <em>National Schools Cup</em> on penalty strokes at home to Caterham on Friday 12 February.</span></p>
<h3>Football</h3>
<p>The girls B XI beat Chelsea Ladies 2-1 as Charterhouse again hosted the <em>Women's Super League</em> on Tuesday 9 February.</p>
<p>The girls B XI beat the visiting IMG Academy from Florida 5-1 on Wednesday 10 February.</p>
<h3>Basketball</h3>
<p>The boys U18 Basketball team beat Harrow 36-27 and the U16A also won their match 48-25 on Thursday 11 February.</p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>In Squash, the U18s and U14s both won against Winchester on Thursday 11 February.</p>
<h3>Swimming</h3>
<p>The Seniors and Intermediates won against Lancing College on Thursday 11 February.</p>
<h3>Shooting</h3>
<p>Lucas Figi (G) and Alex Fomin (P) were both selected to represent <em>The Great British Schools’ Team</em> in their annual match against New Zealand Schools, with Great Britain beating New Zealand with a record score.</p>
<p>In addition to the normal leagues and matches which the shooting team enter this Quarter, Lucas and Alex have been joined by Rory Fisk (R) and Ross Lawson (P), all of whom have been selected to shoot for England Schools in their forthcoming <em>Home Countries International Match</em>.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sport-1Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:47:00 +0000Silver medals for James Russell<p>James Russell won 2 Silver medals in the Finals of the U17 and U20 British Championships at the SportsDock, University of East London, over the weekend of 6 and 7 February. James lost the U17 Final by a single point. At the Junior U20 Final James met the World number 13 and British number 1 Junior, losing by only 3 points. </p>
<p>As a result of his outstanding performance and consistency this season, James has now been selected to fence at the U17 European Championships in Novi Sad later in February and represent Great Britain at the 2016 World Cadet & Junior World Championships to be held in Bourges, France between 1-10 April.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Silver-medals-for-James-Russellhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Silver-medals-for-James-RussellWed, 17 Feb 2016 10:07:00 +0000Round-up of Sport<h4 style="line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Week 5 - Monday 1 to Sunday 7 February</h4>
<h3>Hockey</h3>
<p>Boys' 1st XI defeated Hurstpierpoint at home, 3 - 2 <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on Saturday 6 February</span>. </p>
<h3>Netball and Basketball and Fives </h3>
<p>Netball - U18 A v Lord Wandsworth College lost 26 - 35 o<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n Saturday 6 February</span></p>
<p>Basketball - U16s win 45 - 15 away at Wellington College on Tuesday 2 February. </p>
<h3>Football</h3>
<p>The Football BXI won 3 - 1 versus Sutton Grammar School for Boys on 2 February at home.</p>
<h3>Squash</h3>
<p>Squash U18A defeated Merchant Taylor's School on Wednesday 3 February in an away match and the U15s and U14s both defeated Eton.</p>
<h3>Racquets</h3>
<p>In Racquets the 1st pair of Oli Taylor and Freddie Russell-Jones continued their impressive run with an away win at Tonbridge on Thursday 4 February , making that four wins out of four this Quarter. </p>
<h3>Cheerleeding</h3>
<p>The girls of the Surrey Infinity stunt group, Eva Agali, Olivia Humphreys, Rebecca Maruzzi, Julia Jimenez Maranon and Minty Parker, competed at their first ever regional cheerleading competition where they came second. </p>
<h3>Rowing</h3>
<p>The highlights from the Hampton Head on Saturday 6 February, which included many international trialists, saw the J18 double sculls A crew come 10 out of 22 and the J15 coxed quad: 17 out of 25. All other crews raced well. </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-Sporthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Round-up-of-SportMon, 15 Feb 2016 09:55:00 +0000Charterhouse hosts Tournament<p>Charterhouse hosted the London Schools U19 Water Polo Tournament on Tuesday 26 January.</p>
<p>In the absence of our regular captain, Emil Almazov (g) again led a spirited Charterhouse side that recovered from defeat by the tournament winners, Eton, to finish second by virtue of countback of number of goals scored.</p>
<p>With three of the opposing teams arriving late, the schedule was hectic. The second match saw the School fight back to level at 2 - 2 with both goals from Almazov. Alex McIntyre (R), covered many metres all afternoon in both attack and defence. Great efforts were put in by all in defence throughout the tournament and Giovanni Dos Reis Montefiori (B) made some fine saves when called upon.</p>
<p>Our third match saw intelligent play, and a smothering defence, rack up 9 goals, six from Almazov and 3 from McIntyre.</p>
<p>We weren’t the favorites in the final game against Whitgift and with a minute remaining felt robbed as Whitgift equalised Almazov’s three goals. All was not lost as, in our next attack, Harvey Pratt (B), with 10 seconds remaining, launched an outrageous back shot that bounced high and dropped behind the bemused Whitgift goalkeeper. Great performances all round particularly Joe Pickering (g) in defence with Cassian Frost (B), Sam D’Souza (H), Will Holmes (L) and Christopher Willis (P).</p>
<h3><i>Results:</i></h3>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>2</td>
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<td>2 </td>
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<td>defeated</td>
<td>3 </td>
<td>KCS Wimbledon</td>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-hosts-Tournamenthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-hosts-TournamentMon, 08 Feb 2016 10:15:00 +0000Hockey v Reed’s <h3>1st XI v Reed’s School </h3><h6>On: Saturday 16 January</h6><h6>Venue: Away</h6><h6>Result: 2 - 1 win</h6><p>The away fixture at Reed’s was a tight match which Charterhouse won 2 - 1 with two goals in the final few minutes. Charterhouse spent much of the game on the front foot, pressing Reed’s high up the pitch and creating lots of turnovers. Monty Cox and Christian Peplow in particular looked threatening down the right hand side. </p><p>However, Reed’s defended in good numbers and it proved difficult to create clear-cut chances. Reed’s looked to threaten on the counter attack and their strong short corner routine forced Kareem Belo-Osagie into two sharp saves. In the second half, Freddie Russell-Jones, Matthew Konadu-Yiadom, Tom Brown and Will Dyer-Bartlett all pressed well and good work in midfield from Angus Hatrick and James Hockley created chances in attack. </p><p>Nevertheless, it was Reed’s who took the lead with 50 minutes gone when a number of missed tackles allowed an opposition forward time in the D to hit an unstoppable reverse stick shot into the top left hand corner of the goal. As time ticked away, Charterhouse pressed with renewed aggression and forced an opportunity that Russell-Jones fired in to equalise with seven minutes remaining. Further good work down the right from Yiadom won a corner and sharp rebounding from Brown forced a good save before Hatrick finished the second rebound to win the match with three minutes on the clock.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-v-Reedshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-v-ReedsMon, 08 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0000Lashings All-Stars are Coming <table class="sws-single-document">
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<p>On Sunday 31 July 2016, a Lashings All-Star XI featuring former international cricketers including Herschelle Gibbs, Tino Best, Gordon Greenidge, Devon Malcolm, Saqlain Mushtaq and our very own Martin Bicknell will be at Charterhouse to play two T20 games, against the School 1st XI followed by the OC Friars in a double header. </p>
<p>Tickets for the day include a 3-course buffet lunch with the Lashings stars, afternoon tea, a complimentary Lashings brochure and a matchday programme. A pay bar will be open all day. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">We hope you can join us for what promises to be a memorable day in the beautiful grounds of Charterhouse. Feel free to come on your own or with friends. Tables of 10 can be reserved if you would like to be seated together: </span></p>
<p><strong><em>For a table hosted by a Lashings All-Star, the tickets are £75 per person (£750 for a table of 10). For a table without a Lashings All-Star, the tickets are £65 per person (£650 for a table of 10).</em></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Profits raised from the day will be used to fund cricket projects at Charterhouse.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(133, 1, 52); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype W01'; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Timings: </span></p>
<p><strong>10.00am – Charterhouse 1st XI v Lashings</strong></p>
<p><strong>12.00pm – Lunch</strong></p>
<p><strong>3.30pm – OC Friars v Lashings</strong></p>
<h3>Lashings Team: </h3>
<p><em>Herschelle Gibbs, Tino Best, Gordon Greenidge, Devon Malcolm Wasim Jaffer, Saqlain Mushtaq, Phil DeFreitas, Martin Bicknell, Kirk Edwards, Alex Tudor, Adam Hollioake and Mark Ealham.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>For further information please contact Martin Bicknell by email at </em></strong><a href="mailto:mpb@charterhouse.org.uk">mpb@charterhouse.org.uk</a><strong><em> or 07768 558056.</em></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Lashings-All-Stars-Flyer-for-web.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 565px;" /></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Lashings-All-Stars-are-coming-to-Charterhousehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Lashings-All-Stars-are-coming-to-CharterhouseTue, 26 Jan 2016 15:29:00 +0000Win for Charterhouse<h3>Charterhouse v St Paul’s </h3>
<h6>On: Thursday 21 January</h6>
<h6>Result: Won</h6>
<h6>1st: Oli Taylor (C) and Freddie Russell-Jones: W 3-0 <em> 15/11 15/11 15/6</em></h6>
<p>Oli and Freddie continued their excellent start to 2016 with a confident victory over a decent St Paul’s pair. Both, once again, were comfortable in the rallies and, crucially, served to a telling length in every game to ensure that the opposition were always trying to play catch up - which they never did.</p>
<h6>Colts A: Max Vallance + Ben Hollingworth: W 3-0 <em>15/4 15/8 15/13</em></h6>
<p>This was a comprehensive victory for this increasingly impressive pair. Ben continued where he left off last week enjoying a glorious vein of good form whilst Max was his usual highly competitive self. Ben’s serving was again of a very high quality and he rallied with great consistency, Max hit the ball harder and collected a number of clean winners. This is most encouraging for the second half of the season.</p>
<h6>Junior Colts A: Adam Phillips + Jonnie Capuano: L 1-3 <em>5/15 15/6 11/15 10/15</em></h6>
<p>This was an impressive performance given that Jonnie (one of three matches he played this afternoon!) was playing up a year when Adam’s normal partner went off-change the day before the match. Adam was his usual busy self about the court, and with his new improved forehand saw him chase down many balls and hit good winners. Jonnie played with common sense and an impressive degree of calmness and saw him return a large percentage of serves on his back hand in a measured way and then, when he had the chance, serve a very telling length. They thoroughly deserved to win one game and were very competitive in the last two and on another day might have done even better.</p>
<h6>Yearlings A: Jonnie Capuano + Alex Topley: W 3-1 <em> 15/0 15/5 0/15 15/12</em> . . . and . . .</h6>
<h6> W 3-0 <em>15/8 15/5 15/4</em></h6>
<p>Alex and Jonnie played two different St Paul’s Yearling pairs this afternoon and in each case showed how much they have improved in such a short period of time since September. Both have developed a consistently good serve which all the St Paul’s boys struggled to deal with, but now they are beginning to start to attack the service return as well as loose balls mid-rally. This pair have real potential - watch this space.</p>
<p>Another very satisfying afternoon of racquets to follow on from the clean sweep last Thursday over Haileybury.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-for-Charterhoushttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Win-for-CharterhousTue, 26 Jan 2016 10:15:00 +0000Guildford Schools Swimming Gala<h3>Guildford Schools Gala</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 16 January </h6>
<h6>Results: </h6>
<h6><i>Seniors (over 15): second</i></h6>
<h6><i>Intermediates (under 15): third</i></h6>
<h6><i>Girls: fifth</i></h6>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The Charterhouse Team swam well against some top swimmers in the Guildford Schools Gala. </span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">James Cole (G) achieved a Personal Best Time (PBT) in the Senior 50m Freestyle, Kieran Nash (F) in 50m Senior Butterfly, Pun Tanchanpong in Intermediates 50m Butterfly, Henry Graham (g) in 50m Freestyle, Christopher Cole (S) in 50m Breaststroke and Piers Bowden (S) in the 100m, breaking the intermediate school record. Will Davies (B) and Alex McIntyre (R) also swam for the Seniors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">This year we fielded a team of five girls: Daisy Tremlett and Antonia Menke (g), Kayla Ng Yin (W), Evgenia Dubinskaya (P) and Holly Campbell (B) who all swam well. Daisy broke the Girl’s 50m Butterfly record. </span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Guildford-Schools-Swimming-Galahttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Guildford-Schools-Swimming-GalaTue, 26 Jan 2016 10:00:00 +0000Charterhouse v Wellington<h3>Charterhouse v Wellington</h3>
<h6>On: Wednesday Thursday 21 January</h6>
<h6>Results: </h6>
<h6><em>Seniors:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Won 38 - 24</em></h6>
<h6><em>Intermediates: Won 33 - 22</em></h6>
<h6><em>Under 14: Won<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 34 - 21</em></h6>
<h6><em>Girls: Lost 21 - 30</em></h6>
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<p>This was a great result for Charterhouse with the boys winning all events with the exception of one.</p>
<p>The Girls had some very close races with Raemen Sahney (F) achieving two Personal Best Times (PBT) in 50m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke, Daisy Tremlett (g) breaking her own School record in 50m Butterfly in 34.34, Holly Campbell (B) in 100m Breaststroke and Antonia Menke (g) in 100m Breaststroke and 100m Backstroke.</p>
<p>The Under 14’s did exceptionally well with newcomer Alex Amatavivadhanda (G) winning the 50m Butterfly and 50m Backstroke. Derek Wong (H) won the 50m Breaststroke, Oscar Hanks (B) the 50m Freestyle with a PBT and Pun Tanchanpong the 100m. Henry Graham (g) also swam well with a PBT in 50m Backstroke</p>
<p>In the Under 16’s Chris Cole achieved a PBT in 50m Breaststroke but Piers Bowden (S) won all his three events and Isaac Ng (R) won the 50m Breast stroke. Gabriel Byrne (D) also swam well.</p>
<p>The Seniors won all events with Alex McIntyre(R) winning three including a PBT in 100m Freestyle, <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Kieran Nash (F) won both the 100m Breaststroke and 100m Backstroke and James Cole (G) the 50m Freestyle by 100th’s of a second to Will Davies (B).</span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-v-Wellington-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-v-Wellington-1Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:50:00 +0000Tonbridge Trophy<h3>Tonbridge Trophy </h3>
<h6>On: Thursday 14 January </h6>
<h6>Result: 3rd place</h6>
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<td>Harrow</td>
<td>119</td>
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<td>107</td>
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<td>99</td>
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<td>Dulwich</td>
<td>95</td>
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<td>Winchester</td>
<td>72</td>
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<td>Sevenoaks</td>
<td>72</td>
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<p>The inaugural Tonbridge Trophy Invitational Gala at Tonbridge is a very exciting and competitive event with 10 points for a first place dropping to 5 for second, 4 for third etc. Relays were double.</p>
<p>Charterhouse were an 4th place after the 50m events but improved after the 100m races with two wins to Piers Bowden (S) and one to Oliver Norton (B).</p>
<p>We were very unlucky to be timed out of the Open 4 x 50m freestyle relay, as only manual timing was used and no judges….. we of course thought we had won on the touch. In the 4 X 50m medley it was clearly a second place by fractions of a second.</p>
<h3>Personal Best Times</h3>
<p>Pun Tanchanpong (L) in 50m Freestyle and 50m Butterfly</p>
<p>Isaac Ng (R) in 50m Breaststroke </p>
<p>Christopher Cole (S) in 100m Breaststroke </p>
<p>Alex McIntyre (R) in 100m Butterfly </p>
<p>James Cole (G) and Kieran Nash (F) also swam very well.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Tonbridge-Trophyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Tonbridge-TrophyTue, 26 Jan 2016 09:43:00 +0000Hockey Success<h3>1st XI v RGS Guildford </h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 12 January</h6>
<h6>Result: Won 2-1</h6>
<div>The 1st XI battled to victory in a very tight cup fixture against Ardingly College in the England Hockey Boys’s Schools Cup Round 1. Early in the match Charterhouse fought off a series of attacks from the home side and struggled to find any rhythm going forward, but solid defence from Walton, Cox, Margarson, Harris and Taylor at the back kept the score at 0-0. As the half progressed Charterhouse started to pass the ball more effectively with Cox and Peplow combining well down the right. Both sides won short corners and Matthew Yiadom went close seconds before Ardingly counter attacked and scored in the final seconds of the first half.</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Both sides played much better hockey in the second half and the Charterhouse forward line began to put pressure on the Ardingly back four. The equaliser came from one of these turnovers as Hatrick won the ball at left midfield and combined well with Russell-Jones before the ball spilt to Matthew to finish on the back post. The rest of the game saw both sides have chances and only a sequence of great saves by Kareem and the Ardingly keeper kept the scores level. The deciding goal came with just four minutes left on the clock when Charterhouse won a short corner and Russell-Jones’ strike was brilliantly deflected in at the far post by Christian Peplow. Ardingly were kept at bay for the last four minutes giving Charterhouse a hard-earned victory.</span></div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-Successhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-SuccessTue, 26 Jan 2016 09:36:00 +0000Hockey 1st X1<h3>1st X1 Boy’s Hockey v RGS Guildford </h3><h6>On: Saturday 9 January</h6><h6>Result: lost 4-0</h6><div>After a short but productive pre-season Charterhouse took on an experienced RGS side and lost 4-0. The first half was a tight affair, with Charterhouse coming close with two short corners and an open play strike from Peplow that struck the post, but the better finishing of RGS allowed them to take and then extend the lead in the final three minutes of the first half. The timing of these two goals were a difficult blow for the Charterhouse, who defended very well, but struggled to link play going forwards. Hard work in midfield from Hockley, Dyer Bartlett and Russell-Jones made life difficult for RGS and Kareem Belo-Osagie showed that he is becoming an excellent goalkeeper with a series of good saves. However, RGS continued to press and scored twice in the second half. The scoreline didn’t truly reflect the chances that Charterhouse had created at times in what hat had been a tight game for much of the seventy minutes, but RGS showed why they are one of the top sides in the South of England. </div><div><br></div>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-1st-X1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-1st-X1Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:51:00 +0000Two weeks in Sri Lanka<div>The Charterhouse Cricket squad has recently returned from an excellent 2 week tour of Sri Lanka. The team started in Colombo, moved on to Kandy and finished in Galle, visiting an Elephant Orphanage and the Sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic to name but a couple of attractions along the way. The cricket was excellent with some promising performances. On the whole though, despite the wet weather at times, Director of Cricket Martin Bicknell was pleased with the trip: "we achieved plenty in the time available to us. The boys acquitted themselves very well on and off the pitch". Thanks to Martin and also Charterhouse sports' coaches, David Howells and Sam James, who accompanied the squad on tour.</div>
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<h3>Match 1 v Royal College, Colombo - Tuesday 8 December</h3>
<div>The first match of the tour ended with biblical rain ruining a potentially excellent contest. Bowling first in stifling heat the boys restricted Royal College to 216 - 7 in their 45 overs. Freddie Gratton (L) being the pick of the bowlers taking 3 - 45. All the bowlers did very well and were backed up by some excellent fielding. In reply, Charterhouse lost Jack Hunter-Lees (S) in the first over but Amartya Kaul (S) immediately looked at ease as the side set off in pursuit of the total. However, the skies turned black and the game ended very quickly as the heavens opened. A good start but a shame about the finish.</div>
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<h3>Match 2 v The Mighty Academy - Wednesday 9 December</h3>
<div>The second match on tour took the squad south to play The Mighty Academy. Put into bat, Hunter-Lees and Ishaan Rajan (L) were watchful early on against some tidy seam bowling. The introduction of spin accounted for Hunter-Lees trapped in front while Rajan unleashed some wonderful drives off either foot. Kaul went caught behind and Louis Clayton (P) offered good support to the now fluent and aggressive Rajan. Clayton departed for 22 and Harry Gilbey (W) saw Rajan to a magnificent 100 before he retired unbeaten. George Barlow (V) then stepped up to the plate in magnificent style smashing the bowling to all parts, making 78 not out off 30 balls; it was a brutal innings that took the score to 268 - 3 at the interval. In reply, The Academy had no answer to Barlow as he took 3 quick wickets. Joss Cary (S) chipped in with 3 in a slightly erratic spell with skipper Jonny Charles (L) finished things off by taking the last 2 wickets. A great all round performance.</div>
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<h3>Match 3 v The Methodist College - Thursday 12 December</h3>
<div>Having won the toss Charterhouse decided to bat on a slow looking wicket and a very slow outfield. Kaul and Gilbey opened and looked comfortable without scoring quickly. Gilbey went LBW and Hunter-Lees looked good until he got a good ball and was out caught behind. The scoring rate remained slow and although Kaul remained firm, wickets started to fall around him. Eventually Kaul fell for 47, an innings which would have earned him a hundred in better conditions. A score of 119 - 9 in 40 overs was far better than it looked. In reply, barring a few wides, the visitors bowled with good discipline and wickets fell at regular intervals. Charles mopped up the tail again with Charterhouse running out winners by 38 runs.</div>
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<h3>Match 4 v Kingswood College, Kandy - Monday 14 December</h3>
<div>A delayed start due to a wet wicket and damp outfield saw Charterhouse lose the toss and they were soon in trouble on a wicket that was always going to be a challenge. Having lost 5 wickets for 29 runs, Gilbey and Barlow showed maturity and skill to form the only partnership of the innings. Hitting boundaries was virtually impossible but Barlow did clear the ropes from a rare show of aggression. The final total of 81 in 35 overs was actually quite competitive but before there was a chance to defend the total, another biblical storm put paid to any more cricket.</div>
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<h3>Match 5 v Kurenegela, Kandy - Tuesday15 December </h3>
This was a 20/20 match against a very strong Kurenegala team. Having inserted the opposition Charterhouse started well with Barlow and Brown before the Kurenegala batsman got after the other bowlers. A total of 117 was a good score with another slow outfield. Charterhouse started too slowly against very bowling and were quickly behind the rate; wickets fell at regular intervals and the side lost with a bit of a whimper.
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<h3>Match 6 v The Royal College, Galle - Wednesday 17 December</h3>
<div>The final match of the tour took the squad to Galle to play at its Test Match venue. The opponents, the Royal College boast three U19 Sri Lankan cricketers in their ranks. Fortunately they were playing for their country during this match! After putting the opposition in, the visitors bowled and fielded poorly at the start then performed much better until the last 10 overs where it became a struggle to contain the opposition. Matthew Konadu-Yiadom (R) was the pick of the bowlers but the fielding cost the team dearly with The Royal racking up an imposing 295 - 7 in 45 overs. In reply Kaul and Rajan started impressively and when Kaul departed Hunter-Lees looked in good touch. However, the introduction of real quality spin caused no end of problems with Charterhouse succumbing to 130 all out. Royal College would easily beat all our opponents in a home season, so there was no disgrace to lose to such a talented team in this final match of the tour.</div>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Tour-of-Sri-Lankahttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Tour-of-Sri-LankaThu, 07 Jan 2016 11:23:00 +00001st XI v Highgate School<h3>1st XI v Highgate School</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 28 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: 4 - 2 win</h6>
<p>The final game of the season saw Highgate School come to Big Ground. Two schools whose old boys class themselves as ‘OCs’. One school Elizabethan in origin, one Stuart. Over 800 years of history between them. And Charterhouse played with the weight of all those years on their shoulders for the first 15 minutes, as if wearing Elizabethan ruffs and wandering round in some confusion about whether the state was Catholic or Protestant and whether transubstantiation was de rigeur or not. And in the midst of all this, Highgate were treated to the opening goal, after a lax pass allowed pressure to build and presented a tap in to the Highgate front man. But then Charterhouse began to rebuild. Ortega and Hammond started to control midfield and Platts, Wainwright and Yiadom began to plot and scheme, like Guy Fawkes and his mates. And when Wainwright nicked the ball on the outside of the box, he was then felled in the area, leading to a penalty, which was promptly dispatched by Yiadom. 1 - 1. But what about Ortega-Olazabal you ask? Wasn’t he screaming the house down, diving into improbable challenges and yelping for fouls? Well yes he was. But he also scored a goal from a corner and began shouting about it like he’d just holed a chip to win the Ryder Cup. On the 18th. In Spain. It was simply deafening. And while normally there is a standard period, which we’ll call ‘celebration time’ before players regroup and then return to their starting positions, Ortega just kept screaming, long after the accepted time slot. But we love that passion!</p>
<p>Into the second half and the game got tense, tight and occasionally fractured. Ollie Platts came on up top and deflected, thrust, parried and jabbed. And Highgate didn’t like the cut of his jib. Charterhouse began to stifle the life out of the Highgate back four, with Yiadom and Wainwright pressing high on the wings and Puvanesan nicking the ball in midfield, making the Highgate back line very much resemble Louis XVI and his family, stuck in Paris and not able to get out to St Cloud to celebrate Easter mass. And then, out of nowhere, Wainwright, who’d already won a penalty and had a ball absolutely hammered into his face, danced around a defender and unleashed a venomous, curling shot into the far corner of the goal from just outside the box. And it was 3 - 1. Just play out the match boys, see out the game, manage the situation… Hang on what? Highgate have scored? 3 - 2?!? As that girl asked that boy once, ‘What devil art thou that dost torment me thus?’ I think they both died in the end. Shame that.</p>
<p>But if there’s one man for a crisis, one acronym for such a situation, one unlikely hero, then it’s ‘R-J’ or Frederick Russell-Jones, for whom the word ‘stalwart’ was surely designed. And if one were to ring up Paddy Power and ask them the likelihood of RJ scoring the winner with a right-footed volley in the last five minutes, it would be instructive indeed to hear the answer. But there he was, centre stage, 8 yards out, guiding home the Charterhouse fourth after a Puvy free kick. Amazing scenes. It was a bit like that Tony Adams goal against Everton in May 1998 with Martin Tyler’s ‘Would you believe it!?’ Commentary in the background. In some ways.</p>
<p>And so Charterhouse recorded their ninth win of the season to go alongside nine losses and two draws. And as the balls are packed away, the kit is laundered for one last time and we think back on another season of Charterhouse football we wonder where the time went. From Notts County in August, to Highgate in late November, twenty games in all, plus the ISFA sixes. And so it’s time to put the boxes back in the loft, shut the dusty books, bang the boots together one last time and maybe, just maybe, start to look ahead to the future and the next chapter in the long, proud history of Charterhouse football. There aren’t many longer or prouder.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Highgate-School-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Highgate-School-1Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:25:00 +0000Charterhouse Hosts Football Tournament<p>On Wednesday 25 November Charterhouse hosted a football tournament for Year 6 boys and girls from four Surrey local schools. The tournament was organised by Charterhouse and Primary Sporting Development (PSD), a sports coaching company that provides PE lessons, after school clubs, holiday clubs and CPD to junior and primary schools across the South of England.</p>
<p>Teams from Long Ditton St Mary’s School, Cranmere Primary School, Thames Ditton Junior School and Claygate Primary School all took part in a thrillingly competitive tournament on Northbrook.</p>
<p>It was played in tremendous spirit and all who participated learnt huge amounts and had an afternoon of football fun.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Long Ditton St Mary’s School, who were the eventual winners on penalties.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Hosts-Football-Tournamenthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Hosts-Football-TournamentMon, 07 Dec 2015 09:21:00 +0000Inter-schools Karate Tournament<p>Charterhouse hosted the local Inter-schools Karate Tournament on Saturday 28 November at the Queen's Sports Centre. The event attracted over 50 competitors of varying ages and from a range of different schools.</p>
<p>Run by karate coach Rob Costello and overseen by Master in Charge of Karate at Charterhouse, Chris O'Neill, the feedback from all was extremely positive following a successful day of karate.</p>
<h3>The results for Charterhouse pupils were as follows:</h3>
<h6>Kata (Formal Exercises demonstrating a range of fighting and defensive moves) </h6>
<div><em>Under 14 Beginners</em></div>
<div>Silver - Adria Navarro Miralles (H)</div>
<div>Bronze - Raymond Tian (g)</div>
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<h6>Kumite (Fighting)</h6>
<div><em>U15 Beginners</em></div>
<div>Bronze - Rodney J Fung (G)</div>
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<div><em>U 15 7 - 6 Kyu</em></div>
<div>Gold - Harry Nicol (G)</div>
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<h6>Kata 15 - 17</h6>
<p><em>5 - 4 Kyu</em><br />
Gold - Eimei Kashihara (R)<br />
Bronze - Cyprien Roche (H)<br />
Bronze - Alex Nicol (V)</p>
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<div><em>15 - 17 4 - 5 Kyu</em></div>
<div>Silver - Cyprien Roche (H)</div>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Inter-schools-Karate-Tournament-at-Charterhousehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Inter-schools-Karate-Tournament-at-CharterhouseFri, 04 Dec 2015 16:57:00 +0000Teacher represents GB in Racketlon<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">James Silvester (teacher of Mathematics and Master-in-charge of Tennis) represented Great Britain in the FIR Racketlon European Championships, held in Prague, Czech Republic between 26 and 30 November. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis; these are sports that the majority of the world would have heard of. What happens when you put all of these together? You get Racketlon. Imagine Andy Murray playing Nick Matthew at a game of badminton; Lin Dan playing Rafael Nadal at squash. This sport challenges players physically and mentally by taking them out of their comfort zone. Each sport is played first to 21 points (or 11 in team events) with the winner being the player with the highest cumulative score - every point counts. In the team event, there are 5 players in a side: 2 x men’s singles, 1 x ladies singles, 1 x men’s doubles. Play always starts with the smallest racket (table tennis) and ending up with the largest racket (tennis). The serve alternates every 2 points.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The opening fixture for Great Britain was against Denmark – a traditional badminton powerhouse in the Racketlon playing world. Great Britain soon pressed ahead in the table tennis, and once held together after the squash, there would be no stopping them as they pressed on to a 152 – 107 (+45) victory. Momentum was held as GB played the Netherlands and emerged victorious 146 – 98 (+48).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Austria and Sweden were the next fixtures for the GB team. In the Austria match, James was pitted against an opponent who had beaten him in Vienna at the start of the year. There was to be no repeat here; not only did James record an individual +12 victory, the tennis rackets weren’t needed. A team victory of (+27) ensured a top 2 finish. Sweden were seeded top and proved tough competition; not only streng</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">th in depth, but their female player was the World Tour Race winner (i.e. the player with the most world ranking points in the calendar year). All the matches were tight, but despite James winning his individual match-up +1 against the Swedish number 1, the opponents narrowly came out on top by a margin of +4.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Great Britain was awarded the silver medal – an excellent achievement. The next challenge will be when the World Team Championships take place in Copenhagen in July 2016.</span></p>
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<h6><em>Photographs top left to bottom right: </em></h6>
<h6><em>Tennis - James’s comparative strength, </em><em style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Playing table tennis against Sweden, </em><em style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Contemplating how to beat a nationally ranked badminton player from Denmark, </em><em style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The end of a tennis match against Sweden.</em></h6>
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<h3><i>Team Results:</i></h3>
<h6>Great Britain 152 – 107 Denmark (+45)</h6>
<h6>Great Britain 146 – 98 Netherlands (+48)</h6>
<h6>Great Britain 145 – 118 Austria (+27)</h6>
<h6>Great Britain 142 – 146 Sweden (- 4) </h6>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Teacher-represents-GB-in-Racketlonhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Teacher-represents-GB-in-RacketlonThu, 03 Dec 2015 10:04:00 +00001st XI v Lancing<h3>1st XI v Lancing</h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 25 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: 3 - 2 win</h6>
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<p>Charterhouse and Lancing went head to head in the sort of ding dong encounter that saw both sides embarking upon a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction, before waiting to emerge into some sort of post-war apocalypse, blinking in the limelight and watching the cockroaches with studied care. Charterhouse took the lead when the boisterous Ortega-Olazabal smashed in a bouncing ball from 3 yards. And they were playing some really good stuff. Except for Yiadom of course. But then, having ploughed through the soup course, the home side started to get a bit stuck in a tough bit of steak and Lancing began to hit their forwards more effectively and began to grow into the game. And pretty soon, as is often the way of things, the game was level. And then, in a quite dastardly twist of fate, Lancing took a lead. The game went on and darkness crept ever closer, like a cast of characters engaged in a game of ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf?’. Frustration abounded, anger grew, nails were gnawed and throats became hoarse. But Charterhouse kept on moving. ‘Said we’re running out of time,’ said Cox, quoting Justin Bieber, ‘what do you mean?’ And with that he ran straight into the path of an Isvy shot, the ball cannoning off his back and looping into the goal. And Charterhouse were level and it was Desmond.</p>
<p>And as night stalked Big Ground with his massive cape flowing in the wind, both sides pressed for an equaliser. Puvy, back on after yet another jewellery-related stoppage saw Herring take a seat on the bench, found Yiadom in a one-on-one situation with a defender. And Yiadom, whose pass percentage at that point hovered about 10% and whose shots on target to that point numbered 0, found the strength from within to power past the defender and slot a shot under the goalkeeper. And it was 3 - 2. It was the greatest comeback since the New Liberals battered the Conservatives in the 1906 election after the former had slipped to two humiliating defeats in 1895 and 1900. Or since that time Newcastle came back after losing 0 - 4 at half time to Arsenal. It was utterly resplendent. And it means that Charterhouse finish third in the league, narrowly missing out on semi-final qualification.</p>
<p>Too early to say 'there's always next year' yet?</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Lancinghttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-LancingFri, 27 Nov 2015 14:13:00 +00001st XI v Shrewsbury<h3>1st XI v Shrewsbury</h3>
<h6>On: Friday 20 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: 2 - 1 win</h6>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">When Charterhouse and Shrewsbury first contested this fixture, the Welsh Wizard David Lloyd George was licking his wounds after being kicked out of the top spot by rebellious Conservative back benchers and schoolboy favourite Bonar Law was in the hot seat. 93 years on, the fixture is still going strong and this year it was Shrewsbury's turn to make the long journey across country, though they did it on one of the all-time flair buses, replete with Sky Sports, Wi-Fi and tables. No such comfort for Charterhouse when they travel, though we did watch a video once.</span></p>
<p>Anyway the game kicked off in eerie quiet, because everyone had gone home and turned out the lights, like Sun readers at the 1992 general election. But Charterhouse 1st XI don't pay attention to leave weekends. They don't swan off into the lunchtime sunshine looking for quality family time and a good home-cooked meal. No danger. Instead they turned their attention to one of their oldest foes and contemplated the tough match to come. And remarkably it was 0-0 at half time. Who can remember a game that was 0-0 at half time? Exhilarating in its usualness.</p>
<p>Into the second half and Charterhouse began to purr like that cat of Blofeld. It was one and two touch football and at times it was beautiful. 'Then I look at you' we thought, watching Charterhouse play and thinking of Bill Withers, 'and the world’s alright with me. Just one look at you. And we know it's going to be a lovely day'. Ollie Platts certainly agreed. Within no time he'd bagged a brace and the home side were 2-0 in the lead. Allen, Hammond, Hawkings and Platts. All involved in both goals. Mercer and Gilbey at centre back, keeping a clean sheet. And suddenly the future opened up before us, like when Harry Potter thrashed through the maze and mist and first saw the Goblet of Fire. Obviously there was still time to concede a goal, because there are very few comfortable wins at this level and because Charterhouse could never be accused of being anything other than welcoming hosts. But, bearing perhaps, the wise words of Wilson Phillips in mind, Charterhouse managed to hold on and secure a properly decent victory. Ah leave weekend! Hold us fast, tuck us in and read us delicious stories. We'll be back soon for our last three games. All in a week; all on Big Ground. The geese are getting fat. The season is nearly done.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Shrewsburyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-ShrewsburyFri, 27 Nov 2015 14:13:00 +00001st XI v Victoria College, Jersey<div></div><h3>1st XI v Victoria College, Jersey</h3><h6>On: Wednesday 26 November</h6><h6>Venue: Home</h6><h6>Result: 1 - 5 loss</h6><p>Charterhouse were very much like the League of Nations in this fixture. The first half was akin to the 1920s. A few successes, with the highpoint (or Aaland Islands moment) coming with Orlando Allen's smart finish, which gave Charterhouse the lead. But though there were other positives in the first half, akin to the work of various committees and commissions of the League, there were also some doubts and a few bits and pieces that made one worry about the long term health of the institution. Victoria College were given a great opportunity to draw level as Charterhouse conceded a penalty after some self-inflicted sloppiness, reminding many a spectator of that incident in 1923, when one of the League's own undermined it by just going and riding roughshod in Corfu for heaven's sake. And they took it. But the balance sheet was largely even when the game stopped for half time and there was no question of lamenting the absence of the so-called 'big powers' from this youthful but hopeful side.</p><p>However when the second half started it was like the home side were reeling from the effects of some sort of Wall Street Crash, with the result that they failed to deal with a number of crises, winding up by looking pretty impotent and toothless, like that David Low cartoon showing Japan walking all over the League on its way into a building simply marked 'Geneva'. Charterhouse, like the unfortunate League of Nations, were unable to deal with the aggressive intent of an opponent. Appeasement didn't work in the 1930s and it was never likely to work on Big Ground either. As Santayana said, 'those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. And the thing is, if you don't mark opposing players in the six yard box from a corner, they will probably score. And then if you don't do it again, they'll probably score again. It's very possible that was exactly what Santayana had in mind.</p><p>But look the League of Nations was simply a first draft on the way to building a successor, which has proved far more enduring and let's just leave it there before we get into the politics of its effectiveness since 1945. One game to go.</p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Victoria-College-Jerseyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-v-Victoria-College-JerseyFri, 27 Nov 2015 14:12:00 +0000Ardingly Win 3 - 0<div><span style="color: rgb(133, 1, 52); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype W01'; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">1st XI v Ardingly</span></div>
<h6>On: Saturday 14 November</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Result: 3 - 0 loss</h6>
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<p>On a rain-addled, cloud-riven, grey-abyss-of-nothingess-type day, Charterhouse arrived at the home of the ISFA champions, scene of last year's penalty heartache. There were few survivors from that team, showing just how much rebuilding has gone on in the intervening 12 months. With Boulanger unable to play much of a role last year due to injury, only Yiadom remained of the eleven starters who went out so heroically in the autumn of 2014. Ardingly on the other hand, are much the same as last year and remain a strong side, still in the ISFA cup and riding high in the league.</p>
<p>So, it was a challenge. But as always with a tough away match, you need to start strong and keep the game tight for a period, before growing in confidence and beginning to express yourselves. And so when Ardingly pounced upon a lead with under two minutes gone, the game plan was very much up in the air. But credit to this Charterhouse side. They fought and scrapped and began to eke, erode and fashion. And it could so easily have been 1-1 at the break, after a withering Wainwright break presented Yiadom with a good chance, which he was unable to convert. </p>
<p>Into the second half and the rain and the wind kept up with their whingeing and nagging and Charterhouse began to wilt, conceding a further two goals. In the end Ardingly controlled the game and strolled to victory. But there's no point being overly-critical. 'It is' to quote Ivana Trump, 'what it is'.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/A-Win-for-Ardingly-3---0http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/A-Win-for-Ardingly-3---0Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:35:00 +0000OCs win Grafton Morrish Trophy<div> </div>
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<p>The Old Carthusian Golfing Society team won this year’s Grafton Morrish Trophy, which was held this year from 25 to 27 September 2015. </p>
<p>The Grafton Morrish Trophy is the major trophy of the Public Schools Old Boys Golf Association. The Association is open to the golfing sections of Societies of Old Boys (which includes Old Girls) of HMC schools and other schools which are sponsored by six members. </p>
<p>The format of the competition is amateur scratch foursomes for three pairs of former pupils of the School. There is a qualifying round in May/June, with the knock-out 'Finals' played in September/October each year in Norfolk at Hunstanton Golf Club and the Royal West Norfolk Golf Club in Brancaster. </p>
<p>The team, which comprised Tim Orgill (captain), Mark Benka, Andy Hollingsworth, Simon Stillwell, Julian Hill, Barney Mote and Ryan McKinnia, played beautiful golf in perfect conditions. </p>
<p>A full report by Tim Orgill can be viewed below: </p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/OCs-win-Grafton-Morrish-Trophyhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/OCs-win-Grafton-Morrish-TrophyTue, 17 Nov 2015 10:34:00 +0000Fives Success<h5><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Fives151.jpg" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Archie Cresswell and Findlay McLennan</span></h5>
<p>On Thursday 12 November, seven Fives pairs were entered into the Under 14 Southern Schools Championships. All pairs competed valiantly, with the pair of Edward Emeny and Jonno Mackrill reaching the semi-finals but losing to the finalists, Harrow School. Hector Platt and Jamie Marmion played strongly enough to reach the final against Harrow after a 7 game streak spanned over a period of 4 hours, an achievement in itself. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The final against Harrow was tough, the opposition boys were especially hard hitting and made the eventual win of 12 - 11 exceedingly commendable. It was an especially impressive performance by the Charterhouse pair given that only a few weeks ago the Harrow pair had quite comfortably beaten Hector and Jamie in the Charterhouse v Harrow match. Congratulations Hector and Jamie!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The success did not stop there however as the plate final was an all Charterhouse affair. The Charterhouse pair of Archie Cresswell and Findlay McLennan beat their Charterhouse peers of Ramaan Ahmed and Augusto Subiotto </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">12 - </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">11.</span></p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Fives-Successhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Fives-SuccessMon, 16 Nov 2015 10:40:00 +0000Sri Lanka Cricket Tour<p>On Saturday 5 December Charterhouse 1st XI Cricket squad will depart from Heathrow bound for Sri Lanka. It will be the first time Charterhouse has visited Sri Lanka after previous successful tours to Australia and South Africa. Having been brought up on green, seamer friendly wickets, the bowlers will have to be disciplined on different types of pitches whilst the batsmen will need to patient and play spin with precision. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The two week tour will consist of seven matches against high quality opposition in Colombo, Kandy and Galle. As well as the Cricket, the squad will also take in and enjoy some of the cultural experiences Sri Lanka has to offer; a trip to the elephant orphanage, Ashokaramaya Temple, Pettah Bazaar and the old Parliament will give the tour a rounded feel. There will also be some down time to relax in the lovely hotels they will be staying in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Jonny Charles will lead a sixteen strong party made up of Fifths, First Year and Second Year Specialists. Many have played Charterhouse 1st XI Cricket before and this tour is seen as a great chance to gel as a unit in preparation for the competitive season to come in 2016. </span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Sri-Lanka-Cricket-Tour-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Sri-Lanka-Cricket-Tour-1Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:31:00 +0000Pupil Chosen for GB U17 Team<p>James Russell has been chosen for the GB U17 fencing team in the European Cadet round, taking place in Copenhagen and Bonn. He is currently ranked #3 for GB U17 in Europe. </p>
<p>Over half term James competed in the Elite Epee Series which attracts British fencing's Senior epeeists. This Epee Series contains, in total, 34 of GBs top 50 fencers. The total number of competitors is limited to 100. During the pool games James lost two bouts before beating two GB Seniors and an overseas fencer then lost his final bout to the GB #36. Three wins from six and into the last 128 round. To progress further in the tournament he had to beat another Cadet, which he succeeded in, winning 15 : 13. </p>
<p>Up next, James was against a GB Vet who has a reputation for patience and precision as opposed to James' reputation for speed and timing. At the third period it was 5 all. With 40 seconds to go the Vet was ahead 9 : 7, with 20 seconds he was up to 9 : 8 and only needing one point for extra time. Just 4 seconds left and a restart after a miss, James, with nothing left to lose, leapt off the line, his opponent was too slow as James flicked his sword point over his opponents arm and shoulder and scored the 9th point. The referee set the clock for a Priority Minute - James had won Priority and the match would be his if he scored again or the match was still drawn after the minute. His opponent had no option but to attack and James scored after 15 seconds. </p>
<p>Now into the last 32 to face the Senior ranked 19th, Junior ranked 7th, who is the reigning Commonwealth Cadet Champion and is one of James' best friends in fencing. Putting friendship to one side he won 15 : 9 and progressed into the last 16.</p>
<p>His opponent had recently come 8th in the World U20 Championships, he is the best Junior in GB, ranked 4th in GB as a Senior, another talent group member, widely regarded as a future International champion and James has never taken more than 5 points off him in a match. James went off the starting blocks with a hit on his opponents mask and never looked back, maintaining a lead of between 2 and four points all the way through the match, James won in the second period 15 : 11.</p>
<p>The tournament was entering the latter stages and the business end and James was through to the last 8 against one of GB's very best modern pentathletes. He was lagging by 2 points for most of the bout until he caught and overtook his competitor to go ahead by 2, then his opponent got a quick couple and the match was poised with 20 seconds to go at 14 all. With some last second skill and self-determination, James took the final point off his opponent to make it to the semi-finals. James (age 16) had won his entry to the semi-finals of the highest ranking Senior tournament in GB with just one more point against one of GBs best pentathletes. </p>
<p>The semi-final was against the GB #1 and James went ahead on the first couple of points but they were at 5 : 5 at the first break. They started the second period and his opponent began to find his way around James as James began to fade and eventually went down 15 : 7.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">A truly fantastic effort James! Well done on all your hard work and determination.</span></p>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupil-Chosen-for-GB-U17-Teamhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupil-Chosen-for-GB-U17-TeamTue, 10 Nov 2015 15:39:00 +0000National Squash Final<h5><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Charlie-LeeU19.jpg" style="" /><em><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Photograph by </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Steve Cubbins</span></em></h5>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Pupil Charlie Lee took part in the Technifibre British Junior Championships for U19s, at the Manchester National Squash Centre, held between 29 October and 1 November. </span></p>
<p>He cruised through the Quarter Final beating Bradley Masters (Kent) and overcame the Number 1 seed, Patrick Rooney (Merseyside) in the semi-final 3 - 0, a player to whom he had lost in April earlier this year (0 - 3). In a thrilling final Charlie battled for the title, taking the lead 1 - 0 but he eventually ended runner up to James Peach of Yorkshire, 1 - 3. </p>
<p>Many congratulations to Charlie on a superb effort!</p>
<h6>More information from <a href="http://www.squashsite.co.uk/bjc/today.htm" target="_blank">Squashsite</a></h6>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/National-Squash-Finalhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/National-Squash-FinalSun, 08 Nov 2015 11:49:00 +0000A Week in Football<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span style="color: rgb(133, 1, 52); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype W01', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.8pt;">1st XI v Ibstock Place</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;mso-outline-level:6;background:white"><b><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:" times="">On: Wednesday 4 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;mso-outline-level:6;background:white"><b><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:" times="">Venue: Home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;mso-outline-level:6;background:white"><b><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:" times="">Result: 5 - 0 won</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">‘Have you heard the news?’</span><span mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">‘What news?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">‘The 1st XI captain is interested in you.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span border:none="" mso-border-alt:none="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" windowtext="">And even though Ibstock Place didn’t have a pink book to hand, they soon discovered that Matthew Yiadom was in the mood for scoring. One hat-trick later and the big man was back. ‘This looks like a job for me’ said Yiadom, very much in the style of Marshall Mathers, ‘so everybody just follow me’. And they did. Soon Puvy was bumbling in a fourth and then Oliver Platts bundled through the back line like David Pocock, before an audacious chip over the advancing keeper. And it was 5 - 0. Charterhouse eh? You never know what you’re going to get. It was a weird game if truth be told. A bit of mist, a thin veneer of moisture and an odd atmosphere. Charterhouse were solid, but not particularly fluent in a first half that saw them lead 1 - 0. Ortega was at his very best, scurrying around, screaming his own name and winning a series of thunderous headers, while still finding time for the odd preposterous dive, accompanied, as always, by that melodramatic scream, as if he’d had his leg caught in a bear trap. But it was old Barry White himself up top, who sealed the points. ‘I’ve heard people say that too much of anything is not good for you baby’ hummed Yiadom as he forced himself through three defenders and finished by kissing the post with a strike, ‘but I don’t know about that’. And minutes later the crazed Lothario added his third with a glorious header after a good Hawkings cross. If one strained close enough, there was just the faintest hint of Lionel Ritchie's 'you’re once, twice, three times a lady’ cascading over Lessington. With a hat-trick under his belt, how confident might the skipper feel now? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span border:none="" mso-border-alt:none="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" windowtext="">The 1st XI captain is in the goals. Boom.</span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 19.8pt; background: white;"><span linotype="" new="" palatino="" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:" times="">1st XI v Invitational XI<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;mso-outline-level:6;background:white"><b><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:" times="">On: Thursday 5 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:" times="">Venue: Home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:" times="">Result: 2 - 1 won</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span border:none="" mso-border-alt:none="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" windowtext="">Charterhouse played a team who can't be named. For legal reasons. So maybe they didn't really play them at all.</span><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">It was a professional team composed of international stars. But they can't be named. And it isn't really for legal reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">It was a team that played in a white away strip with connections to Cobham and the Fulham Broadway. And there were a lot of X chromosomes around. But that's as far as we can go. For reasons that aren't without foundation I suppose, but still seem to miss the point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">So let's just say this. There was an air of frisson and excitement around a resplendent Big Ground, rather like in the moments before the bottle stops spinning at a teenage party. Literally no-one knew what to expect. There was technical artistry on display from the away side and a pleasing style to behold. The home side were a little sluggish, taking too many touches, fretting in possession and obsessing about intricacies. Fortunately Yiadom has hit form, netting a brace to take his tally to five in two games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span mso-fareast-language:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="">And so one of the biggest crowds on Big Ground saw Charterhouse triumph 2 - 1. Against such celebrated and feted opponents. Maybe they won the battle but I would argue the away side won the war in a wonderful celebration of all that should be good about football. Especially given some blinkered attitudes, both socially and in professional sport. In fact this game did lots to break down barriers, increase respect and frankly, educate. But none of those points can really be made. Missed opportunity? I'm pretty sure what the Pankhursts would have thought. And equally sure of their disappointment at the anonymity of it all. Ah well. Small steps and all that.</span></p>
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19.8pt;background:white"><span border:none="" mso-border-alt:none="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" windowtext="">'Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream'. Too right Taylor. Look Hampton are a good side. Some very good players and a well-marshalled passing style. But run through the five goals Charterhouse conceded and you'll find a litany of listlessness, an abdication of authority, a surrender of self-worth. And after a week, which saw Ibstock Place dispatched and a good victory against that other team we're not allowed to talk about, Charterhouse lay down and had their tummies tickled while allowing 11 masked men to come and nick everything out of the house. This would be a disservice to Margarson and Boulanger who were immense throughout and it wouldn't acknowledge Hunter Lees' second half performance. But frankly it was disappointing. It was, to be controversial, like watching Spectre. As if Blofeld would come to a dilapidated MI6 to put up a series of budget posters in some sort of blu-tacked GCSE timeline of Daniel Craig's adversaries since 2006 before hiding in open view behind a sheet of glass! And all this after Bond discovered the ultra-secret Spectre meeting (an organisation of which he'd been totally unaware since 2006) all by having a crack at a widow after her husband's funeral. Extraordinary.</span><span mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
19.8pt;background:white"><span border:none="" mso-border-alt:none="" new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" windowtext="">Anyway to go through all the goals would be an exercise in mediocrity and cringeworthy self-recrimination. A clean sheet, like under ultra-violet light in Room Raiders on MTV, should matter. We need to be like Spartans in the 300. We should be like Frederick's Prussia in the Seven Years' War. We should be like the American marines at Khe San. We should be like the British at Rorke's Drift. We should be like Robert the Bruce. We should be like the flu-ridden 38-point-scoring Michael Jordan in that epic 1997 NBA finals match v Utah Jazz. We should be like that girl in the John Lewis Christmas advert. We should be, frankly, like Carthusians in a House football tournament. But we're not.</span></p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/A-Week-in-Footballhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/A-Week-in-FootballSun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000Pupils Selected for Hockey Camp<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Hockey-Camp152.jpg" /><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Hockey-Camp15.png" style="width: 215px; height: 315px;" /></p>
<h6><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Left to right: Raphael Boulanger (P) and James Hockley (W) </span></h6>
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<p>James Hockley (W) and Raphael Boulanger (P) are both celebrating following their selection for their respective Wessex Leopards age group squads for their forthcoming England Hockey's High Performance Assessment camps (HiPAC). </p>
<p>The squads for the 2015 Futures Cup and HiPAC were selected with over 500 players progressing to this stage of the Single System across the four age groups for both boys and girls. The HiPAC is a residential three-day camp which forms part of Junior Regional Performance Centre (JRPC) Tier 2 activity. The camps are held annually and are for players in the U15 and U17 age group who have been selected for squads from JRPC Tier 1 activity. The squads are called the Saxon Tigers, the Pennine Pumas, the Wessex Leopards and the Mercia Lynx.</p>
<p>HiPACs aim to give players in the U15 and U17 age groups first-hand experience of an international training camp environment, in preparation for potential future involvement in a National Age Group Squad (NAGS). </p>
<p>Hockley will attend the U17 HiPAC at Lilleshall from 25-27 October 2015. Boulanger will attend the U15 HiPAC in Leeds over the same dates.</p>
<p>Director of Sport, Nick Beasant, was delighted with their call ups ‘As sports award holders, it is great to see that both James and Raphael’s hard work and training has paid off. They have had to travel and train a great deal over the summer months to get to this stage and I am sure that they will acquit themselves well at the forthcoming assessment camps. We wish them the very best of luck.’</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Selected-for-Hockey-Camphttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Selected-for-Hockey-CampMon, 19 Oct 2015 12:17:00 +0000Improved Training for Sport <p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">The grounds and sports pitches at Charterhouse are spread across a vast campus which can make filming matches and training quite a tall order across the year. Being able to effectively film those activities also requires equipment and importantly a good vantage point, which isn’t always possible when looking to film at multiple sites. Therefore something tall and portable was required to enable the Charterhouse Sports Department to further develop and utilise its video analysis processes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Last December, the School approached performance analysis consultancy business </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">AnalysisPro Ltd</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;"> to purchase a set of computerised video analysis software. The video analysis software now in use is </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Nacsport</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;"> and it allows the user to review any video footage live or after the event so that selected footage can be analysed using personalised templates. This creates a series of rows and clips that are used to determine key statistics about a performance, but importantly it enables coaches to select a clip from the whole game to further annotate with notes and drawings to present back to players to educate, confirm understanding and promote discussion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 2em; background-color: initial;">Nick Beasant, Director of Sport, is delighted with the new AP Capture Mobile Tripod solution: ‘having already worked with AnalysisPro and extensively used their Nacsport software, we had no hesitation is asking them to provide us with their state of the art mobile filming solution. Having already had the opportunity to use the new IP Camera, the quality and clarity of the footage coupled with the ease of use and assembly make it an excellent product for our coaching staff to use.’</span></p>
<p>In late September, <i>AnalysisPro</i> returned to Charterhouse to review its <i>Nacsport </i>training, to highlight new features which will enable users to easily see a breakdown of performances with a statistical dashboard output. However, this wasn’t the only thing that Jon Moore and Josh Bryan from <i>AnalysisPro</i> were back at the School for; they were also delivering their <i>AP Capture Mobile Tripod</i>, providing a solution to the filming requirements at Charterhouse.</p>
<p><i>AP Capture</i> is a software created by <i>AnalysisPro</i> that enables users to control high quality IP Cameras and also capture the footage and an audio source directly onto the computer, meaning that a video file of the filmed event is ready to be used straight away for reviewing in the <i>Nacsport</i> software for example. Around their <i>AP Capture </i>software, <i>AnalysisPro </i>have developed both fixed and mobile<i> IP Camera</i> solutions that enable teams to film their activities with ease, great height and quality. Their <i>AP Capture</i> solutions are currently being used by top flight clubs and organisations like Liverpool FC, Everton FC, Bath Rugby, FA Wales, Millfield School and Cardiff Metropolitan University to mention a few. And now Charterhouse has joined this growing community after choosing the <i>AP Capture Mobile Tripod Solution</i>.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Improved-Training-for-Sporthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Improved-Training-for-SportMon, 19 Oct 2015 11:56:00 +0000Football v Eton<h3>1st XI v Eton</h3><h6>On: Saturday 10 October </h6><h6>Venue: Home</h6><h6>Result: 1 - 1</h6><p><img src="https://charterhouseschool.fluencycms.co.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/FootballvEaton15.jpg"></p><p>More cards than a closing down sale at Clintons. And a broken goal, controversy, tempestuous testosterone and a nail-biting finish. In the end it was 1 - 1, but it was a game that was physically ageing for spectators and coaches. There was no sign of Benjamin Button on Big Ground. The game ended with Yiadom punching in a penalty to said broken goal and then celebrating like Temur Ketsbaia as Charterhouse drew level in injury time. As the game ended, the away side unleashed a torrent of abuse, in scenes reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. Meanwhile, in slightly ominous fashion, a drone flew overhead. Strange scenes indeed. In truth it was a tight game, with little quality on display. Charterhouse probably had the better of the first half, with RJ, Taylor, Platts and Isvy dealing well with the direct style of play, but Eton dominated the majority of the second half as Charterhouse lost their way, appearing listless, lukewarm, lacking, limp and leaden. Eton took the lead mid-way through the latter half as the Charterhouse defence was just coming out of a period where they resembled a cohort of former schoolgirls reconvening at a more recent Take That concert. They got too excitable and distracted, forgetting that you have to concentrate in the moment. And so it was that they watched in a daze, as the Eton striker broke through a number of tackles, all the while humming ‘Could it be Magic’, before tumbling the ball past the otherwise excellent Jackson. Fortunately however, grit and character came to the fore, and Charterhouse stayed in the hunt even though they weren’t at their best. They kept going, kept driving and refused to go away, despite Eton’s resilience and aggression. The Charterhouse side put one in mind of Rasputin, stumbling onwards into the snow, with Yusupov and co intent on knocking him down (having poisoned and shot him of course). But in all the huff and puff they didn’t really look like scoring, which is unfortunately where the Rasputin analogy falls down, what with his legendary proportions and all. And just when it looked like the fat lady was about to open her capacious lungs, Yiadom seized redemption like it was the last Buzz Lightyear in Hamleys in 2000 and brought the home side level. It was emotional. Too emotional. But the unbeaten record stretches on for all of two games with one game left before half term. What we need is a trip to Berkshire. That's the ticket. </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-v-Etonhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-v-EtonWed, 14 Oct 2015 14:36:00 +0000Football v Bradfield<h3>1st XI v Bradfield</h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 13 October </h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Lost: 2 - 1 </h6>
<p>'Don't tell me you're my heartbreaker' crooned Justin Bieber and he might well have been singing about Bradfield away on 13 October 2015. Oh pain. Dumbledore had it right when he said to Harry, 'you care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.' And though admittedly no one on the pitch was facing the same colossal pressure as 'the one who lived' in attempting to thwart some of the greatest evil the world had ever seen, it still hurt. Charterhouse took a 1-0 lead into half time having marshalled themselves effectively and having worked exceptionally hard as a unit. And what a goal! Hammond muscled the ball from the Bradfield right back and then sprayed the ball over the opposing left back whereupon Yiadom weighed up his options, pondered and mulled and then thwacked the ball into the opposite corner from 25 yards. It was glorious. Utterly glorious. And so it was Charterhouse that took a lead into the break. 38 minutes later it was 1-1 and Charterhouse had a dangerous free kick. 39 minutes and a quick break later it was 2-1 and the game was gone. Deflating. Like the 1970s. In purely economic terms of course. There had been such great promise, but ultimately nothing. It was sort of like Indiana Jones part four. And so the unbeaten run comes to an end. After two games. So the first half of OQ draws inexorably near, shuffling towards us like an old man in search of soup. Oh Exeat! Grasp us to your bosom tightly. Refresh and pamper us. Shower us with daytime television and pumpkins. But go easy on the sweets because fitness needs to be maintained. We return with a home league fixture against Ibstock Place on Wednesday 4 November. Happy holidays!</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-v-Bradfieldhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-v-BradfieldWed, 14 Oct 2015 10:29:00 +0000Charterhouse Football v Winchester<h3>1st X1 v Winchester</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 3 October</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Won: 6-2</h6>
<div>Ah October. Like an old friend visiting after a three year posting to a colonial outpost. Charterhouse arrived at Winchester after the traditionally high-in-nutrition lunch that a cheese sandwich, twix and salt and vinegar crisps provides. And they weren’t sure of themselves, because of a difficult season, which had been exactly mirrored by the hosts. Winchester had played Alleyn’s. And they’d won. Winchester had played Bede’s. And they’d won. And so Charterhouse knew they’d have to be at the races. And goodness me, were they at the races! They were, to labour the point, dressed in top hats, three piece morning suits concealing pocket watches and holding betting slips that were literally tinged with gold. And they simply flew out of the traps. Inside two minutes, it was 1-0, the feverish nightmare that is Jamie Platts skipping his way through the Winchester ranks like some sort of daisy-chain-making primary school girl, before laying on a pass for his brother. There was even time for Ortega-Olazabal to tick the football cliché box, by bellowing ‘come on boys, 0-0’ with the sort of outrageous lie that often accompanies early goals. Everyone knows it’s not 0-0, but someone has to say it. And oh my days, it was then two (although of course it was still 0–0), when Puvanesan slotted past the Winchester keeper, before Jamie Platts added a third (by which point it was definitely 3-0). With his right foot! It was pandemonium. And still the sun shone, such that we began to bemoan the lack of factor 30 on our pasty faces in the strong autumnal sunshine. Then Charterhouse added a fourth after Ortega-Olazabal threaded a pass through for the rampaging Hammond, who just about had time to adjust his hair band, before firing past the Winchester keeper. Then, a fifth, Boulanger sweeping home after a corner. And then, almost unbelievably, a sixth, Ortega-Olazabal getting in on the act and scoring after a brilliant cross from Puvanesan. But then Charterhouse got lazy. They believed all that historical country stuff about leaving the house unlocked and trusting the neighbours. And it was no surprise when, while luxuriating amongst bubbles in the jacuzzi upstairs and listening to jazz, while sipping chardonnay, the blighters just came right in and nicked the silverware. Isn’t it always the way? And so Taylor, who’s never scored a goal for any team, anywhere, at least in Charterhouse colours, helped the home side out by blasting into his own net, metaphorically clothed in a housecoat, holding a copy of ‘Country Life' and putting on the porch light for the burglars. And thus Winchester bagged their second, having wandered through the Charterhouse defence and poked in a first from distance. 6-2 in the final analysis. Time to catch breath and reflect how these sort of games never seem to happen in the Premier League. Time to wander up to the Winchester bar and discover, with horror and utter disgust that the very same scoreline was on the cards at the Ethiad stadium, except that Newcastle could only muster one! Oh for a Taylor in the Manchester City ranks. Still who cares about the Premier League when the Charterhouse 1st XI are storming their way back into the Elgin League South! A confidence-boosting win with Eton on the horizon. And yes, Winchester beat them too. So, genuinely, who knows? </div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-Winchesterhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-WinchesterWed, 07 Oct 2015 09:56:00 +0000U11 Six-a-Side Competition<h3>Annual Prep School U11 6-a-Side</h3>
<h6>On: Sunday 4 October</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Result: Ludgrove won</h6>
<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Football-USixes.jpg" style="" /></p>
<p>Charterhouse hosted the 31st Annual Prep School U11 6-a-Side Competition on Sunday 4 October. 17 teams took part in a highly entertaining and hard fought day that saw Ludgrove come out as winners, beating Aldro in the final. In the third and fourth place play off New Beacon beat Lanesborough to win the Malcolm Bailey Trophy. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and the boys were a credit to their schools. Special thanks to the Charterhouse boys who refereed the matches.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/U11-6-a-Side-Competitionhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/U11-6-a-Side-CompetitionTue, 06 Oct 2015 14:26:00 +0000Hockey Conference<p>Four Charterhouse 1st XI Hockey players and three Charterhouse Hockey Coaches left the School on Sunday 4 October for the long trip to the Midlands to attend the MT13 Hockey Conference, (Matt Taylor - Head Coach of Beeston Hockey Club and Ex International). There were two sides to the day; the coaches attended lectures on Drag Flicking by the top flicking Coach in the world, Toon Siepmans, and they attended a Lecture on Team Management and Tactics by Adam Commens, the current Hockeyroos Head Coach (Australian Women). </p><p>Whilst this was going on the players were partaking in Hockey sessions run by some of the top players of the game. Such stars included Florian Fuchs current German international and star player of Uhlenhurster HC Hamburg, Lieke van Wijk current Dutch Women international and star player of Laren Hockey Club, Jonty Robinson who is Southgate Hockey Club 1st XI Coach and various other star players from Beeston Hockey Club. There were drills on leading, shooting, drag flicking, indoor skills and small sided games which were all led to the highest quality. The boys benefitted hugely from the day and being coached by top players as did the coaches who also came away armed with more knowledge to coach with when they got back to Charterhouse. The whole day whet the appetite for the fourth coming school season! </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-Conferencehttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Hockey-ConferenceTue, 06 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0000Charterhouse Football v Repton School<h3>1st X1 v Repton School</h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 <br />
Venue: Away<br />
Lost: 0-5 Friendly </h6>
<p>When the The Right Honourable Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport under Harold 'Supermac' Macmillan, opened the M1 in 1958, it made the historic fixture between Charterhouse and Repton a lot more manageable. Though there'd be some that would say that the M40 was quicker. But that's another story and would require more research into the motorway network of the United Kingdom, for which, alas, there's no time. Still, it's a journey of 163 miles, if you're still following, which, of course, is to say that, all in all, Charterhouse moved themselves 326 miles to fulfill this historic fixture, which predates even the Preston bypass in age, instituted as it was during Asquith's premiership, with reform of the House of Lords on the agenda, together with Home Rule for Ireland and a clamour for greater social reforms for the dispossessed, needy and infirm. And as Jeremy Corbyn took the stage in Brighton, it was as if nothing had changed. But politics were far from the mind as the latest incarnation of Sutton's beneficiaries took the park against the Reptonians of, well Repton. And why all the meaningless detail? Well Repton won 5-0. And with some 150 miles to go of the return journey, it feels more comfortable to think of anything but the football. Did you know for example, that even though the M1 opened in 1958, it would be another ten years before the journey to Repton could be completed, because extensions to junction 19 were only made between 1965 and 1968! And I bet you weren't aware that there are over 2,200 Eddie Stobart trucks on the road, with the firm's official fan club numbering 25,000 members! Oh alright then. Well we started badly, but weathered a storm of sorts, before failing to deal with a regulation corner and conceding one of the softer goals ever seen in the history of the fixture. But at half time (like Millfield) Charterhouse weren't out of it. But ten minutes later they were, as four goals flew past a bewildered defence. And so we lost. And as the sun sets to our right and we crawl through traffic excited by the promise of possibly reaching 50mph, in roadworks, we're thinking wistfully of those early motorway days when there were no speed limits and wondering how we pick ourselves up ahead of a tough fixture against Winchester on Saturday. 'Wake me up' said Green Day, 'when September ends'. Well it has. Maybe October will be better.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Match-v-Repton-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Match-v-Repton-SchoolWed, 30 Sep 2015 14:56:00 +0000ISFA Cup Round 1<h3>1st XI v Millfield School</h3>
<h6>On: Wednesday 23 September</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Lost: 0-3</h6>
<div>After an eventful journey from Charterhouse, which included a spluttering minibus, a reunion with Lew and a journey through the Wookey Hole caves, the 1st XI arrived at Millfield ready to blood themselves in the ISFA cup. And the omens were good. A very nice man from the recovery service had fixed the bus and there were no concerns at all about the curse of the <em>Witch of Wookey</em>, what with many a metaphorical Father Bernard in the team. Taylor and Puvanesan had put their UCAS forms to one side for the day; Wainwright had been much happier with the pillow situation, having brought his own; Hunter-Lees and basically all the First Years were feeling few effects from their woefully unambitious but depressingly consistent order of chicken korma; and a certain understated yet ruthless member of staff had walked off with the crazy golf prize. The only real doubt was goalkeeper Ben Jackson, who to his great credit had gone off piste as it were, but had got it horribly wrong and was struggling his way through the consequences of a particularly fiery chicken madras. In short, Charterhouse were prepared. But within 10 minutes, it really might have been 4-0 to Millfield. The away side were simply wretched, but battled through to survive an early onslaught. It was akin to Ali against Foreman in the 'Rumble in the Jungle’. In fact it was as they left ‘rope-a-dope’ behind and began to show ambition that they conceded. The first goal came from a corner. A Charterhouse corner. A poor touch allowing Millfield to break and take the lead. At half time, the game was very much alive and much excitement was in the air, when Yiadom beat the keeper to the ball about 25 yards out, before being felled. The keeper, like an observer of colour at a Maoist rally, saw red. And Millfield were down to 10. But Charterhouse didn’t take advantage. They didn’t work the replacement goalkeeper. They became too direct and desperate, like an out-of-luck college student at 2.30am. As men were committed forward, Millfield began to sense a counter-attack, adding two quick goals in the last five minutes. And so the game ended 0-3. Millfield progress, Charterhouse bow out. That’s cup football. And so we say goodbye to ISFA in September, before the leaves have departed the trees, before Halloween, half term and even leave weekend. ‘Rash beyond all reason, why comest thou to look on me?’ asked the <em>Witch of Wookey</em> when confronted by Glastonbury’s Father Bernard, before the latter quoted scripture and turned her to stone. Things aren’t that bad at least.</div>
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http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-1http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-Cup-Round-1Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:08:00 +0000OC Day Football<h3>1st XI v Old Carthusians</h3>
<h6>On: Saturday 19 September</h6>
<h6>Venue: Home</h6>
<h6>Lost: 1-2 </h6>
<p>'The boys are back in town'. Old boys. Former Carthusians. Decorated footballers. ISFA cup winners. FA Cup winners. And a current side that is as dominant in Old Boys football as Liverpool were under Bob Paisley. On a balmy September afternoon with the odd backdrop of a concurrent cricket match and a tank, seemingly driven by six children under the age of 12, leading fifteen classic cars in endless loops of the old houses, Charterhouse changed from maroon to white and prepared to look the past in the eye. It was a bit like Napoleon, flushed with victory against the Prussians at the battle of Jena, but insisting on a visit to the grave of Frederick the Great to pay his respects. Or something like that. Charterhouse started with a roar and against all predictions, took a much-deserved lead, Yiadom finishing with relish. All over the park, the current school side were immense, but perhaps the pick of the players was Orlando Allen, who started bossing midfield in the manner of a 1920s' speakeasy gangster, complete with penguin shoes, pencil-thin tie and black fedora. Winning tackles, finding space and maintaining possession, Allen was the star of the show, until he was felled by the sort of tackle specifically banned under the Geneva Convention, the perpetrator last year's captain, Robbie Hughes. After a short spell giving evidence at the police station, Allen was able to resume, putting in the sort of performance, which should give him great confidence. Ably insisted in midfield by Ortega-Olazabal, no stranger himself to the odd horror challenge, and the very tidy Hawkings, Charterhouse were purring along and basking (whatever that actually is) in the atmosphere of nostalgic, anecdotal conversations as OC day happened all around. At half time it was 1-0 to the 1st XI and honestly, it was absolutely amazing. Sunshine and splendour and a lead that was totally deserved. And I'd love to stop there. Particularly as the home side carved out a number of very good chances in the second half. Especially as the effort and work rate remained persistent. Specifically (but subjectively of course) because the home side were the better side. But it wouldn't be the whole story. The sad reality is that the OCs equalised from a flicked header after a long throw, and then took the lead when an unmarked player nodded in from six yards at a corner. And so it was all for nothing. There's no point building a Maginot Line and then neglecting to defend the Ardennes! A painful lesson learned. But this is a young side and they'll be better for it. And so we head to Millfield to play the first round of the ISFA cup. 'Great ambition is the passion of a great character' said Napoleon. A test of both awaits. </p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/OC-Day-Footbalhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/OC-Day-FootbalFri, 25 Sep 2015 10:05:00 +0000Charterhouse Football v Westminster School<h3>1st XI v Westminster School</h3>
<h6>On: Tuesday 15 September</h6>
<h6>Venue: Away</h6>
<h6>Won: 2 - 0 Friendly </h6>
<div>Victory. Sweet-scented florid victory. Charterhouse steamed up the A3 like Peter the Great on his way back from Portsmouth on the Great Embassy. But unlike the massive Tsar, they weren't on their way to Deptford to smash up a borrowed property. No. They were on their way to Westminster, albeit with the intention of doing some damage. On the football pitch just to be clear. By winning that is. Anyway. Starting with the revolutionary 4-4-2 formation, Charterhouse began on the front foot and it wasn't long before an early lead was secured. Orlando Allen launched an up and under that the Westminster keeper spilled and there was Ollie Platts, smashing in from literally 8 inches. 1-0. What then followed was a pretty miserable and turgid affair. Charterhouse literally regressed in front of our very eyes. Passes went astray, tackles went askew, headers went awry. And Westminster began to grow in confidence. Everything was set for the sort of scrappy morbid finish often associated with an Eastenders episode in January, until, out of nowhere, Will Puvanesan speared a volley into the top corner from 20 yards after a clipped Yiadom cross. It was a goal totally out of keeping with the match, like a pin-striped, hush-puppied Tory at a family party round at Jeremy Corbyn's. A win! We're open for business. </div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-Westminster-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-Westminster-SchoolTue, 15 Sep 2015 12:01:00 +0000Charterhouse Football v Bede's<h3 style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.2em 0px 1em; border: none; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(133, 1, 52); line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1st XI v Bede's School</h3>
<h6 style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.2px; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On: <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;">Saturday 12 September</span></h6>
<h6 style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.2px; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Venue: <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;">Away</span></h6>
<h6 style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.2px; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lost: <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px;">2-3 </span></h6>
Blimey O'Reilly. Beggaring of belief. Stupefying stunned silence. Credence strained and patience pinched. In short, a 2-3 scoreline, which had to be seen to be believed. After celebrating the Queen's milestone by rolling out the red carpet for Alleyn's on Wednesday, Charterhouse made the epic journey down to Bede's, a journey of such length that one almost expected to cross the international date line in the process. Arriving late Saturday afternoon, or possibly early Friday morning depending on your perspective, Charterhouse adjusted themselves, donned the famous maroon and set out for victory. Boulanger, Hitchins, Taylor and Platts, J. formed a new-look back four and immediately looked more solid, right up until the point when they conceded. So Bede's took a lead. Charterhouse pressed on, Ollie Platts hitting the post, Yiadom and Boulanger thumping headers over the bar and Allen, Hunter-Lees and Ortega-Olazabal swarming around like a bunch of discontented match girls at the Bryant and May factory in 1888. And nothing came. But after half time, Hawkings emerged with an equaliser and parity was in the air. Shortly afterwards Yiadom pierced the heart of the Bede's defence like a straw through a carton of Um Bongo (they drink it in the Congo) but couldn't beat the keeper. Then he turned the centre back and propelled an Exocet against the bar. Optimism was in the air. It was like the mid 1990s, Oasis at Maine Road and Euro 96. But then calamity. A quick Bede's break led to panic in the Charterhouse defence, Boulanger eventually slicing a clearance into the top corner of Jackson's goal. As own goals go, it was absolutely sensational. And then out of nowhere Bede's got a penalty and suddenly, imperceptibly and implausibly it was 1-3. But Charterhouse have regrouped since Alleyn's. They've forged alliances and armed themselves. They've prepared coastal defences and mounted propaganda campaigns. And so heads didn't drop. On and on they came, like radical amendments to Disraeli's Second Reform Act. And very much like the Gladstonian Liberal Party, Bede's did eventually break, Yiadom stealing through after a clever Puvanesan pass and bisecting the goalkeeper's legs. But alas time, in total contrast to the Rolling Stones' contention, was very much not on our side and so the game ended in defeat. Character and bottle demonstrated; pride regained. But still a defeat. Vincent Square on Tuesday. Westminster. Away. http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-Bedeshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charterhouse-Football-v-BedesSat, 12 Sep 2015 09:27:00 +0000Charterhouse Football v Alleyn's School<h3>1st XI v Alleyn's School</h3><h6>On: Wednesday 9 Sep</h6><h6>Venue: at Home</h6><h6>Lost: 0-2</h6><div>The circus did indeed move on. But a few wrong turns and some cutbacks in management meant that the elephants didn't arrive and that the helter-skelter was all askew. Alleyn's took one look at the assorted stalls of ragged merchandise and scantily-staffed amusement rides and simply ran amok. It was like a soft play area on a wet bank holiday. Charterhouse were overwhelmed, running in quicksand, wading in treacle, swimming in slovenliness. Before long it was 0-2, Alleyn's capitalising on some poor defensive work and utterly dominating, leaping about with gay abandon, singing songs, walking off with the womenfolk and causing a real ruckus in the town square. Surely there would be a reaction? But none came. Nothing was offered. Nought was proffered. In truth it was one of the most dismal first half performances anyone could remember from the home side. Half time saw an expectant crowd start to drift away murmuring and muttering, spluttering and warbling. But some remained. And they might have been cheered by a much improved second half, which hinted at optimism. They might have been pleased to see Charterhouse making some tackles, winning some headers, completing some passes and producing some shots on goal. They might even have dreamed of a comeback. And we love our supporters for that. But not even the Everly Brothers could dream that today's performance warranted a result. Ah football with your fickle fortunes. Within a whisker of winning the ISFA sixes on Sunday. Torrid and miserable home defeat on Wednesday. Maybe the whole thing was a dream. 'Only trouble is. Gee Wiz. I'm dreamin' my life away.' We'd better wake up soon because we're off to Bede's on Saturday in need of a reaction. We didn't invent the game to put on a show like that. Track down the elephants, couple-up the trucks, herd up the lions, chivvy the staff, pack up the big tent and let's get this show on the road. </div>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-Football-v-Alleyns-Schoolhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/1st-XI-Football-v-Alleyns-SchoolThu, 10 Sep 2015 11:09:00 +0000Pupils Complete Level One qualification<p>A group of First Year Specialist (Year 12) Carthusians have completed their summer holidays by gaining the Lawn Tennis Association’s Level One qualification. This course enables candidates to act as an assistant in the delivery of mini-tennis lessons to young players. In addition, the course helps to develop confidence and transferable skills such as communication, planning and teaching which will be helpful to our pupils as they move further through school and into university and the work place. </p>
<p>During the sixth form, these pupils will have the chance to complete higher level tennis coaching qualifications which will enable them to take more responsibility on court and enhance their earning potential. It is considered that Charterhouse has the most comprehensive programme in the country for the development of tennis coaches, organiser Tim Reynolds (maths teacher) commented “these young people have worked hard over the holidays to gain this qualification and I am sure it will be most useful to them in the future.” </p>
<div>This is the latest cohort to complete the training first instigated in 2012 to train up the Year 11 pupils as Level One and Year 12 pupils as Level Two <span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 26.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">coaches</span>. Charterhouse continues to offer the most comprehensive such programme of any school in the UK. </div>
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<div>The following boys were involved:</div>
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<div>Orlando Allen<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>V</div>
<div>Emil Almazov<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>g</div>
<div>Sam Andrade-Brown<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D</div>
<div>Charlie Davies<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>L</div>
<div>Gabriel Davis<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>V</div>
<div>Cassian Frost<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>B</div>
<div>James Howett<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>R</div>
<div>Seb Hurd<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>B</div>
<div>Charles Pexton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D</div>
<div>Herbie Pyke<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>V</div>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Complete-Level-One-qualificationhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Complete-Level-One-qualificationMon, 07 Sep 2015 09:22:00 +0000ISFA Six-a-Side Tournament<p>Nine boys represented Charterhouse in the annual ISFA six-a-side tournament, on Sunday 6 September, this year hosted by Manchester Grammar School. Playing on full sized pitches with only 6 players on the pitch at any one time, Charterhouse found themselves in a tough 1st Round Group. </p>
<p>Things started off slowly with a 1-0 defeat to City of London in a match which Charterhouse failed to keep possession as well as they could. However, this was then followed by a 3-1 win over Winchester, a 2-1 win over St. Bede's and a pre lunch 3-1 victory over RGS Newcastle. In the afternoon, Charterhouse drew 1-1 in a tight affair versus Hampton which saw them finish second in the group and qualify for the knockout rounds.</p>
<p>These proved to be nail biting affairs as penalties decided the quarter final versus Forest following a 2-2 draw in normal time. Charterhouse won 3-1 on spot kicks. Alas, it was the same in the semi final; a 1-1 at full time against Repton meant penalties once more. However, this time Charterhouse agonisingly lost out 2-1 to the eventual winners.</p>
<p>The boys were a real credit to Charterhouse and the competition. Top scorers were Jack Hunter-Lees (S) with four and the Platts twins, Ollie and Jamie (both g) with three goals each. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/ISFASEPT15.jpg" /></p>
<p>The squad was:</p>
<h6>Back Row left to right:</h6>
<p>Ollie Taylor (D) , Will Puvanesan (F), Thomas Boulanger - capt (P), George Barlow (V), Max Hitchins (D)</p>
<h6>Front Row left to right:</h6>
<div>Jamie Platts (g), Ollie Platts (g), Jack Hunter-Lees (S), Guy Wainwright (W)</div>
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<h3>Report by David McCombes (MiC football)</h3>
<div>Day dawned and dawned bright. After a five hour journey, spicy hot lamb mirchi and a decent night's sleep in the Holiday Inn Express, Salford Quays, Charterhouse set out for Manchester Grammar School, scene of last year's unbelievable cup result. Happy times. Striding through the gates like an early Plantagenet King that got me into trouble with a national newspaper once, Boulanger was back. Back where he made his name by striking the third goal in that most improbable of victories. Not one for the superstitious, Boulanger had stayed in the same room at the Holiday Inn and fancied his chances. And why not? Well because the first game was promptly lost 0-1. That's why. But Charterhouse are dogged, like Dogtanian and his crew of Muskahounds fighting against that evil dachshund, Richelieu. So they came back, storming to three victories against Winchester, St. Bede's and RGS Newcastle, the Platts twins searing through defences like a Stanley knife across cardboard, while Hunter-Lees started dominating midfield, orchestrating play, pulling strings and fiddling with buttons. Notching four goals in the tournament, the latter finished as Charterhouse's top scorer. But all across the side, solidity announced itself: Hitchins and Taylor at the back, Puvanesan and Wainwright in midfield and Barlow twixt the sticks. Surveying it all was Boulanger, oozing serenity and sense, shutting down threats and mopping up spillages. And on went Charterhouse, pushing past Forest on penalties after a 2-2 draw which saw two of the all time great misses from Charterhouse strikers. Arriving in the semi-finals, a slender lead was taken when Ollie Platts latched onto a magnificent through ball from Hunter-Lees and slotted past the Repton keeper. But Repton came back strong and found an equaliser. And so to penalties again and this time two misses saw the cruellest of exits from the competition, especially as Repton went on to win the final 4-0. And thus the last two ISFA competitions have seen Charterhouse lose on penalties to the eventual winners. But you can do all sorts with statistics I suppose. Oh come on though, let's be flush with excitement for the year ahead. It's a good early statement. Looking forward to getting our boots green with the luscious grass of Big Ground on Wednesday. The circus moves on.</div>
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<h6>Staff who attended: </h6>
<p>David McCombes (MiC football), David Howells (Director of Football), Ian Hamilton (Sports Co-ordinator)</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-six-a-side-tournamenthttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ISFA-six-a-side-tournamentSun, 06 Sep 2015 09:48:00 +0000Football Training For Pupils<p><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/StGeorgesFootball.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;" /></p>
<p>Eighteen boys visited the Football Association's (FA) official England training base St George's Park for three days pre-season training between 25 and 27 August. FA coaches took two training sessions on the 'David Beckham pitch' ahead of a thrilling encounter with Notts County Academy, Charterhouse recovering from 0-3 to earn a hard-fought 3-3 draw. Goals came from captain Matthew Konadu-Yiadom (R) and two from Ollie Platts (g).</p>
<p>On the final morning, the boys were treated to a hydrotherapy session, involving underwater treadmills and hot and cold water treatment. One final highlight was an excellent Capital One Cup clash between Burton Albion and Middlesbrough, the latter finally prevailing after injury time. Both hotel and facility staff commented on the excellent behaviour and attitude of boys and hopefully the pre-season training will pay off over the course of a long season.</p>
<p>The group were accompanied by David McCombes<span style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Master in Charge)</span>, David Howells<span style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Director of Football)</span>, Nick Beasant <span style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Director of Sport) </span>and colleague Martin Bicknell.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Training-For-Pupilshttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Football-Training-For-PupilsWed, 02 Sep 2015 09:37:00 +0000National Championship Swimmer Piers Bowden<div><img class="float_left" src="https://charterhouseschool.fluencycms.co.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Swimming15Piers.jpg" style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; height: 300px; width: 225px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;"></div>
<p>Piers Bowden (Year 9) recently competed in the ‘The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) National and British Championships’ having qualified in five events earlier in the year.</p>
<p>Piers trains at Charterhouse during term time and does one session per week with Guildford City.</p>
<p>In the ASE Championships, held during the first week of August in Sheffield, he swam the 100m Butterfly in a personal best time of 1:02.38 in the heats which ranked him in first place. He improved his time to 1:01.83 in the finals to become Champion of the Championships.</p>
<p>In the 50m Freestyle he also achieved a personal best time (PBT) in the heats of 26.10 and came second to win a silver medal in a time of 26.03 seconds.</p>
<p>The British Championships were held at the end of July in Sheffield where he competed in the 200 Individual Medley, 100m backstroke, 50m Backstroke where he reached the finals and came 10th overall in 29.82 and achieved a PBT in the 100m freestyle of 56.74.</p>
<p>This is the first time we have had a National Champion while they are still at Charterhouse a previous pupil, Jack Marriott became a National Champion in 50m backstroke after he had left the School. </p>http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/National-Championship-Swimmerhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/National-Championship-SwimmerTue, 18 Aug 2015 10:38:00 +0000Charlie Lee to Represent England <p class="float_left"><img src="http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Mainfolder/News/sport_news/Charlie-Lee.jpg" /></p>
<p>Charlie Lee has continued his excellent run of recent successes on the squash court by being selected to represent the England U19s squad. He is now in a squad of five athletes who will represent England at the World Junior Championships to be staged in Eindhoven between 26-30 July. Charlie will have now represented England from U13 to U19 level.</p>
<p>As Number 1 for Charterhouse, he has remained undefeated throughout the 2015/6 season and helped the team reach the National Finals for the first time in the School's history.</p>
<p>In December, Charlie reached the final of both the U17 Canadian and US Opens, whilst back in Britain, he reached the last 16 of the British U17 Open. In March, Charlie then beat the Number 1 seed en route to the English Closed U17 final which he convincingly won.</p>
<p>He also continues to play club squash for St George’s School and has made his debut in the Professional Squash League for Luckford’s. He has also signed up as a professional player.</p>
<p>We wish Charlie the very best of luck for the summer ahead.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charlie-Lee-to-Represent-Englandhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Charlie-Lee-to-Represent-EnglandWed, 01 Jul 2015 11:47:00 +0000Gold Medals for Pupils<p>On Saturday 13 June, 15 Charterhouse athletes competed in the Surrey Schools Athletics Championships held at Kingsmeadow Stadium in Kingston. Between them, there were 7 new personal bests, 3 School Records, 4 Gold medals, 2 Silver medals and 1 Bronze medal. The gold medalists were George Shipton in the senior 400m, Michael Okoye in the senior high jump, Kareem Belo-Osagie in the senior discus and Obi Onyejewke in the intermediate sprint hurdles. The School records were set by Alex O’Callaghan-Brown in the junior boys hurdles, Michael Okoye in the senior high jump and Nikita Kuzmin in the senior shot put.</p>
<h3>Gold Medallists</h3>
<h6>George Shipton - Senior 400m (50.90s)<br />
Michael Okoye - Senior High Jump (1.94m - school record)<br />
Kareem Belo-Osagie - Senior Discus (33.76m)<br />
Obi Onyejekwe - Inter 100m Hurdles (13.66s)</h6>
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<h3>Silver Medallists</h3>
<h6>Nikita Kuzmin - Senior Shot Put (12.81m - school record)<br />
Korede Solomon - Senior 110m Hurdles (19.16)</h6>
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<h3>Bronze Medallist</h3>
<h6>Ben Draper - Senior Long Jump (6.04m - PB)</h6>
<h6>Alex O’C-B - 4th Junior 80m Hurdles (12.16 - school record)<br />
Alex Zylstra - 4th Senior 400m Hurdles (86.50 - school record)<br />
Will Kirkpatrick - 6th Senior 1500m (4:25.4 - PB)<br />
Luke Clegg - 7th in Junior 80m Hurdles Final - hit hurdle (13.54s in heat)<br />
Robert Parham - Junior HJ (1m50 - season’s best)<br />
Henry Rowland - Junior LJ (4m30)<br />
Ben Dunscombe - Senior 800m (DQ’d, but ran 2:00.9 - PB)</h6>
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<p>As well as fighting out for medals they also compete for places on the Surrey team for the English Schools' Athletics Championships which take place on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 July in Gateshead.</p>
<p>To qualify for Gateshead, athletes need to impress the selectors with their performance in Kingston, as well as attain a qualifying standard. Obi Onyejekwe is the only Charterhouse athlete so far who possesses a national standard of Personal Best (PB). He is ranked 4th in the UK in the U17 100m Hurdles, with a time of 13.44 seconds.</p>
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Picked-for-Waverley-Athletics-Teamhttp://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Pupils-Picked-for-Waverley-Athletics-TeamMon, 15 Jun 2015 16:44:00 +0000